Nancy Etcoff

Nancy Etcoff serves as Practicing Psychologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry. At the Massachusetts General Hospital, Ms. Etcoff served as Director of the Program in Aesthetics and Well Being. She has conducted research on the perception of beauty, emotion, well-being and the brain for more than 20 years, culminating in numerous awards and research papers in professional journals including Nature, Cognition and Neuron. She also maintains a private practice in clinical psychology, and serves as a consultant to corporations and organizations on the subjects of both well-being and beauty. She serves as a Member of Advisory Board of The First Thirty Days Inc. She serves as Faculty Member of the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard University Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative where she teaches a seminar on "The Science of Happiness." Ms. Etcoff's critically acclaimed popular science book, Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty is the subject of a one-hour Discovery Channel program.