Three Women Honored by the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society has announced the inaugural class of SANS Fellows. The society is recognizing scholars who have made exceptional and lasting contributions to the organization and to the field of social and affective neuroscience.

Three of the six scholars in the initial class of SANS Fellows are women.

Chelsea Helion is an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she directs the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab. Her research examines how individuals represent, recall, and regulate affective states, with a particular interest in how affective processes inform social cognition. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Temple University and a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell University. Dr. Helion did postdoctoral research in social and affective neuroscience at Columbia University.

Kristen Lindquist is a social and affective neuroscientist studying how emotions and social behavior arise from the dynamic interplay of brain, body, and culture. She holds the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Endowed Chair in Social Psychology at Ohio State University. She previously served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Lindquist holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in psychology from Boston College. She completed postdoctoral training through the Harvard University Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative.

Abigail Marsh is a professor in the department of psychology and interdisciplinary program in neuroscience at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She is the director of the university’s Laboratory on Social and Affective Neuroscience. Her research is aimed at understanding the neural and cognitive basis of empathy, altruism, aggression, and psychopathy. Dr. Marsh is the author of The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between (Basic Books, 2017). She received her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. Dr. Marsh conducted postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Mental Health.