# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-kirsch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:14.801Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-kirsch"
name: "Irving Kirsch"
slug: "irving-kirsch"
description: "Irving Kirsch is an American psychologist and academic. He is the Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and a lecturer in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also professor emeritus of psychology at the Universities of Hull and Plymouth in the United Kingdom, and the University of Connecticut in the United States. Kirsch is a leading researcher within the field of placebo studies who is noted for his work on placebo effects, antidepressants, expectancy, and hypnosis. He is the originator of response expectancy theory, and his analyses of clinical trials of antidepressants have influenced official treatment guidelines in the United Kingdom. He is the author of the 2009 book The Emperor's New Drugs, which argued most antidepressant medication is effective primarily due to placebo effects."
tagline: "Medical researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof-Kirsch-02a-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1943-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7326007326007327
  historical:           6.354429333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "إرفينغ كيرش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ارفينج كيرش"
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    title: "Irving Kirsch"
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    title: "アービング・カーシュ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%88%2C_%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Кирш, Ирвинг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump