- Nancy Etcoff
- Nancy Etcoff is an evolucionary psichologist is part of a new vanguard of cognitive researchers asking: What makes us happy? Why do we like beautiful things? And how on earth did we evolve that way?
- Nancy Etcoff habla sobre la sorprendente ciencia de la felicidad 2004
https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_etcoff_happiness_and_its_surprises?subtitle=es
- Nancy Etcoff, Investigadora Cognitiva habla sobre la felicidad: de cómo buscamos lograrla e incrementarla, de cómo está desarticulada de nuestras circunstancias reales, y de su sorprendente efecto en nuestro cuerpo.
- Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty – 11 Julio 2000
de Nancy Etcoff (Autor)
A provocative and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, skewering the myth that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior.
In Survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism—it’s in our biology.
Beauty, she explains, is an essential and ineradicable part of human nature that is revered and ferociously pursued in nearly every civilization—and for good reason. Those features to which we are most attracted are often signals of fertility and fecundity. When seen in the context of a Darwinian struggle for survival, our sometimes extreme attempts to attain beauty—both to become beautiful ourselves and to acquire an attractive partner—suddenly become much more understandable. Moreover, if we understand how the desire for beauty is innate, then we can begin to work in our own interests, and not just the interests of our genetic tendencies
- La Supervivencia de los más Guapos
- Resumen del libro Supervivencia del más Atractivo (Survival of the Prettiest) por Nancy L. Etcoff