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Abigail Marsh Quotes

born 1976 United States

Abigail Marsh (born 1976) is an American psychologist and neuroscientist who works as a professor at Georgetown University's Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, where she is the director of the Laboratory on Social and Affective Neuroscience.

United States
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Neuroscientists
Psychologists

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The most effective way to conquer fear with anything is just to deliberately expose yourself to it in small doses, and gradually up the level of threat, with a professional (counselor) if necessary, because fear in some ways is a habit.

Once the proto‑mammalian brain was equipped with the wholly novel and evolutionarily necessary capacity to care about the welfare of other beings outside the self, there was no limit to what other kinds of love could theoretically be felt.

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