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Abigail Marsh is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at Georgetown University. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard University in 2004 and afterward conducted postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Mental Health until 2008. She directs the Laboratory on Social & Affective Neuroscience, research in which is aimed at addressing questions that include: How do people understand what others think and feel? What drives us to help other people? What prevents us from harming them? They tackle these questions using multiple approaches that include functional and structural brain imaging in adolescents and adults from both typical and special populations, as well as behavioral, cognitive, genetic, and pharmacological methods. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the S&R Kuno Foundation, and the Mind & Life Institute. Her work has received awards that include the Wyatt Memorial Award for translational research from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Cozzarelli Prize for scientific excellence and originality from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She serves on the advisory boards of the National Kidney Donation Organization and 1DaySooner and is a co-founder of Psychopathy Is.