# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kristin-neff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:55:57.353Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kristin-neff"
name: "Kristin Neff"
slug: "kristin-neff"
description: "Kristin Neff is an associate professor in the department of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is widely recognized as a pioneering researcher in the academic study of self-compassion."
tagline: "American professor of psychology"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966-11-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.2
  momentum:             0.4444444444444445
  historical:           5.964802666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/neffselfcompassion/"
    handle:    "neffselfcompassion"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Neff"
    title: "Kristin Neff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Neff"
    title: "Kristin Neff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Neff"
    title: "Kristin Neff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%84%D1%84"
    title: "Крістін Нефф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Neff"
    title: "Kristin Neff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Neff"
    title: "Kristin Neff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20831189"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump