Nancy L. Etcoff

9.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
33 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Nancy L. Etcoff is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy L. Etcoff has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 9 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nancy L. Etcoff's work include Face Recognition and Perception (9 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (4 papers). Nancy L. Etcoff is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (9 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (4 papers). Nancy L. Etcoff collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. Nancy L. Etcoff's co-authors include Paul J. Whalen, Sean C. McInerney, Michael B. Lee, Michael A. Jenike, Scott L. Rauch, John Magee, Susan T. Fiske, Shelley E. Taylor, Audrey J. Ruderman and Bruce R. Rosen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Nancy L. Etcoff

32 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

Masked Presentations of Emotional Facial Expressio... 1978 2026 1994 2010 1998 1996 2001 1978 500 1000 1.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Masked Presentations of Emotional Facial Expressions Modulate Amygdala Activity without Explicit Knowledge
    1998 1.7k citations Paul J. Whalen, Scott L. Rauch et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  2. Response and Habituation of the Human Amygdala during Visual Processing of Facial Expression
    1996 1.4k citations Nancy L. Etcoff, Paul J. Whalen et al. Neuron profile →
  3. Beautiful Faces Have Variable Reward Value
    2001 812 citations Itzhak Aharon, Nancy L. Etcoff et al. Neuron profile →
  4. Categorical and contextual bases of person memory and stereotyping.
    1978 707 citations Shelley E. Taylor, Susan T. Fiske et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

Peers

Nancy L. Etcoff
Scott A. Huettel United States
Alan G. Sanfey Netherlands
Elizabeth A. Kensinger United States
Ursula Heß Germany
Gregory S. Berns United States
Arne Öhman Sweden
Stephan Hamann United States
Joseph W. Kable United States
Yuejia Luo China
Teri L. White United States
Scott A. Huettel United States
Nancy L. Etcoff
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gupta, Nabanita Datta, et al.. (2024). In the eye of the promoter? How faculty ratings of attractiveness matter for junior academic careers. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 220. 645–659. 1 indexed citations
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Hur, Youngjin, Nancy L. Etcoff, & Emmanuel Sirimal Silva. (2022). Can Fashion Aesthetics be Studied Empirically? The Preference Structure of Everyday Clothing Choices. Empirical Studies of the Arts. 41(2). 525–545. 1 indexed citations
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Etcoff, Nancy L., Shannon Stock, Eva G. Krumhuber, & Lawrence Ian Reed. (2021). A Novel Test of the Duchenne Marker: Smiles After Botulinum Toxin Treatment for Crow’s Feet Wrinkles. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 612654–612654. 6 indexed citations
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Lomas, Tim, Nancy L. Etcoff, William Van Gordon, & Edo Shonin. (2017). Zen and the Art of Living Mindfully: The Health-Enhancing Potential of Zen Aesthetics. Journal of Religion and Health. 56(5). 1720–1739. 19 indexed citations
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Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Nancy L. Etcoff, & Mads Meier Jæger. (2015). Beauty in Mind: The Effects of Physical Attractiveness on Psychological Well-Being and Distress. Journal of Happiness Studies. 17(3). 1313–1325. 51 indexed citations
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Etcoff, Nancy L., et al.. (2011). Cosmetics as a Feature of the Extended Human Phenotype: Modulation of the Perception of Biologically Important Facial Signals. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e25656–e25656. 151 indexed citations
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Etcoff, Nancy L., et al.. (2009). Preservation of differences in social versus non-social positive affect in children exposed to war. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 4(3). 234–242. 2 indexed citations
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Buhlmann, Ulrike, Nancy L. Etcoff, & Sabine Wilhelm. (2007). Facial attractiveness ratings and perfectionism in body dysmorphic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 22(3). 540–547. 96 indexed citations
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Buhlmann, Ulrike, Nancy L. Etcoff, & Sabine Wilhelm. (2005). Emotion recognition bias for contempt and anger in body dysmorphic disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 40(2). 105–111. 106 indexed citations
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Buhlmann, Ulrike, Richard J. McNally, Nancy L. Etcoff, Brunna Tuschen‐Caffier, & Sabine Wilhelm. (2003). Emotion recognition deficits in body dysmorphic disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 38(2). 201–206. 120 indexed citations
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Aharon, Itzhak, et al.. (2001). Beautiful Faces Have Variable Reward Value. Neuron. 32(3). 537–551. 812 indexed citations breakdown →
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Etcoff, Nancy L., Paul Ekman, John Magee, & Mark G. Frank. (2000). Lie detection and language comprehension. Nature. 405(6783). 139–139. 67 indexed citations
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Makris, Nikos, et al.. (2000). Sensitization of subcortical and paralimbic circuitry to angry faces: An fMRI study. NeuroImage. 11(5). S255–S255. 1 indexed citations
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Whalen, Paul J., Scott L. Rauch, Nancy L. Etcoff, et al.. (1998). Masked Presentations of Emotional Facial Expressions Modulate Amygdala Activity without Explicit Knowledge. Journal of Neuroscience. 18(1). 411–418. 1734 indexed citations breakdown →
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Young, Andrew W., Duncan Rowland, Andrew J. Calder, et al.. (1997). Facial expression megamix: Tests of dimensional and category accounts of emotion recognition. Cognition. 63(3). 271–313. 449 indexed citations
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Whalen, Paul J., Scott L. Rauch, Nancy L. Etcoff, et al.. (1997). Masked presentation of fearful faces activates the amygdala without conscious awareness: An fMRI study. 5. 2 indexed citations
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Etcoff, Nancy L., Paul J. Whalen, William A. Kennedy, et al.. (1996). Response and Habituation of the Human Amygdala during Visual Processing of Facial Expression. Neuron. 17(5). 875–887. 1368 indexed citations breakdown →
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Etcoff, Nancy L. & John Magee. (1992). Categorical perception of facial expressions. Cognition. 44(3). 227–240. 440 indexed citations
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Taylor, Shelley E., Susan T. Fiske, Nancy L. Etcoff, & Audrey J. Ruderman. (1989). Bases contextuales y categoriales de la memoria de personas y de estereotipia. International Journal of Social Psychology Revista de Psicología Social. 4(2). 193–217. 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, Shelley E., Susan T. Fiske, Nancy L. Etcoff, & Audrey J. Ruderman. (1978). Categorical and contextual bases of person memory and stereotyping.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 36(7). 778–793. 34 indexed citations

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