Author

Books by Abigail Marsh

Abigail Marsh is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Georgetown University, where she directs the Laboratory on Social and Affective Neuroscience. Her research focuses on altruism, psychopathy, and the neural mechanisms of empathy and fear. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and has published widely in journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Fear Factor is her first book for a general audience and draws directly on her lab's published research on extraordinary altruists and individuals with psychopathy.