# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-etcoff
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:37:57.067Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-etcoff"
name: "Nancy Etcoff"
slug: "nancy-etcoff"
description: "Nancy Etcoff is an American psychologist at Harvard University, where she has taught classes about the mind, brain, behavior, and aesthetics. Etcoff is best known for her 1999 book Survival of the Prettiest: the Science of Beauty, which argues for a biological basis for human beauty linked to evolutionary psychology. In addition, she works at Massachusetts General Hospital."
tagline: "American psychologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.943413333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1011068/"
    handle:    "nm1011068"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Etcoff"
    title: "Nancy Etcoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Etcoff"
    title: "Nancy Etcoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E5%B8%8C%C2%B7%E5%9F%83%E7%89%B9%E7%A7%91%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "南希·埃特科夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11789453"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4980441"
    title: "Nancy Etcoff"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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