Carl Marci, MD
Director of Social Neuroscience

Dr. Carl D. Marci is the Director of Social Neuroscience for the Psychotherapy Research Program, a staff psychiatrist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, and Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Marci received his M.A. in psychology and philosophy at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and then completed his M.D. with honors at Harvard Medical School. He is a graduate of the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Training Program and has won several awards including the Harvard Medical School sponsored Livingston Award for Young Investigators, Kaplan Fellowship for Research, and recently the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Young Investigator Award. He is also the 2001 recipient of the American College of Psychiatrists Laughlin Award and 2003 recipient of the Harvard Psychiatry Mysell Research Award. Dr. Marci's current research interests include the use of psychophysiology combined with measures of social-emotional process, perception of therapist empathy, and therapeutic alliance during psychotherapy. Other projects include the physiology of laughter during psychotherapy, the physiology of emotion, and the physiology of depression. His goal is to quantify the relationship between physiologic concordance, emotions and social interaction in a variety of settings to help improve our understanding of empathy, learning, and human inter-relatedness.