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Dr. Marsh & LSAN receive media attention for research on extreme altruism

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May 1, 2017 – Professor Abigail Marsh  and members of the Laboratory for Social and Affective Neuroscience  have received media attention for the recently published paper in Nature Human Behavior, “Social discounting and distance perceptions in costly altruism. ” The paper has been featured on the Georgetown homepage  and The Washington Post . 

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