Abigail Marsh
Neuroscientist and Psychologist
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.
“There’s a very pervasive belief that human nature is fundamentally selfish, but I know for a fact that that can’t be true in part because my life was saved by a stranger a long time ago when I was 19.”
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“If we didn’t find helping other people pleasurable, we wouldn’t be altruistic.”
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Humans are among the most altruistic species that we’ve studied, due to our alloparental instincts – a trait we evolved into that allows us to care for offspring who are […]
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Are humans naturally selfless? Psychologist Abigail Marsh is using studies on psychopathy and altruism to find out.
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