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Abigail Marsh

Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
Verified email at georgetown.edu
Cited by 11741

Deficits in facial affect recognition among antisocial populations: A meta-analysis

AA Marsh, RJR Blair - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Individuals with disorders marked by antisocial behavior frequently show deficits in recognizing
displays of facial affect. Antisociality may be associated with specific deficits in identifying …

The caring continuum: Evolved hormonal and proximal mechanisms explain prosocial and antisocial extremes

AA Marsh - Annual Review of Psychology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Implicit in the long-standing disagreements about whether humans’ fundamental nature is
predominantly caring or callous is an assumption of uniformity. This article reviews evidence …

The neuroscience of empathy

AA Marsh - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights • Empathy for pain requires simulation via networks involved in experienced pain.
• Distinct networks support empathy for distinct phenomena like pain, pleasure, and …

Reduced amygdala response to fearful expressions in children and adolescents with callous-unemotional traits and disruptive behavior disorders

AA Marsh, EC Finger, DGV Mitchell… - American Journal of …, 2008 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Extensive work implicates abnormal amygdala activation in emotional facial
expression processing in adults with callous-unemotional traits. However, no research has …

The effects of fear and anger facial expressions on approach-and avoidance-related behaviors.

AA Marsh, N Ambady, RE Kleck - Emotion, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
The facial expressions of fear and anger are universal social signals in humans. Both
expressions have been frequently presumed to signify threat to perceivers and therefore are often …

Abnormal ventromedial prefrontal cortex function in children with psychopathic traits during reversal learning

EC Finger, AA Marsh, DG Mitchell… - Archives of general …, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
Context Children and adults with psychopathic traits and conduct or oppositional defiant
disorder demonstrate poor decision making and are impaired in reversal learning. However, the …

Oxytocin improves specific recognition of positive facial expressions

AA Marsh, HH Yu, DS Pine, RJR Blair - Psychopharmacology, 2010 - Springer
… The task used in this study is derived from a task described previously (Blair et al. 2001;
Marsh and Blair 2008) but which was modified in keeping with a task described by Harmer et al. (…

Accurate identification of fear facial expressions predicts prosocial behavior.

AA Marsh, MN Kozak, N Ambady - Emotion, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
… First, the results of the meta-analysis discussed previously (Marsh & Blair, 2006) show that
individual differences in general antisocial tendencies—including criminality, psychopathy, …

Nonverbal “accents” cultural differences in facial expressions of emotion

AA Marsh, HA Elfenbein, N Ambady - Psychological Science, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
We report evidence for nonverbal “accents,” subtle differences in the appearance of facial
expressions of emotion across cultures. Participants viewed photographs of Japanese …

Empathic responsiveness in amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex in youths with psychopathic traits

AA Marsh, EC Finger, KA Fowler… - Journal of child …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Empathic responsiveness in amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex in youths with psychopathic
traits - Marsh - 2013 - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry - Wiley Online Library …