Alan Fiske
Alan Page Fiske | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  American |
| Known for | Social relationship theories |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Thesis | Making Up Society: Four Models for Constructing Social Relations Among the Moose of Burkina Faso (1985) |
Alan Page Fiske, born in 1947, is an American professor of anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles known for studying the nature of human relationships and cross-cultural variations between them.[1]
Fiske earned a bachelor's degree (Cum Laude) in Social Relations from Harvard College in 1968. He went on to earn a masters in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1985, both from the University of Chicago, focusing on cross-cultural problems and human development.[2] Between earning degrees, Fiske worked as a director and consultant to the Peace Corps in Bangladesh and Upper Volta, and as consultant to USAID for the Central African Republic.[2]
He served in various professorship capacities at the University of Pennsylvania, UCSD, Swarthmore College, and Bryn Mawr College, before settling into a full professorship at UCLA beginning in 2002. There he is former director of the Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, and of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development.[2] His areas of research interest include psychological anthropology, social relationships, and theories of violence.[3]
Publications
- Structures of Social Life: The Four Elementary Forms of Human Relations (1991). New York: Free Press (Macmillan).
- A.P. Fiske & N. Haslam 1996. Social Cognition Is Thinking About Relationships. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 5:143-148.
- A.P. Fiske & N. Haslam 1997. Is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder of Pathology of the Human Disposition to Perform Socially Meaningful Rituals? Evidence of Similar Content. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 185:211-222.
- A.P. Fiske, S. Kitayama, H. Markus, & D. Nisbett 1997. The Cultural Matrix of Social Psychology. In Handbook of Social Psychology, 4th Ed. Gilber, S. Fiske, & G. Lindzey, Eds. pp. 915–981. New York: McGraw Hill.
- Complementarity Theory: Why Human Social Capacities Evolved to Require Cultural Complements (2000). Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4:76-94.
- M. Iacoboni, M. D. Lieberman, B. J. Knowlton, I. Molnar-Szakacs, M. Moritz, J. Throop, & A. P. Fiske 2004. Watching Social Interactions Produces Dorsomedial Prefrontal and Medial Parietal BOLD fMRI Signal Increases Compared to a Resting Baseline. NeuroImage 21:1167–1173.
- Four Modes of Constituting Relationships: Consubstantial Assimilation; Space, Magnitude, Time and Force; Concrete Procedures; Abstract Symbolism (2004) In N. Haslam, Ed., Relational Models Theory: A Contemporary Overview. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Tage Rai & A. P. Fiske 2011. Moral Psychology as Regulating Relationships: Moral Motives for Unity, Hierarchy, Equality, and Proportionality in Social-Relational Cognition. Psychological Review 118:57–75. DOI: 10.1037/a0021867
- Daniel Nettle, Karthik Panchanathan, Tage Rai, & A. P. Fiske 2011. The Evolution of Giving, Sharing, and Lotteries. Current Anthropology 52:747–756.
- Metarelational Models: Configurations of Social Relationships (2011). European Journal of Social Psychology 42:2–18. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.847.
References
- ^ Human Sociality, Alan Fiske
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, Alan Fiske, Social Sciences division of UCLA
- ^ Faculty page for Alan Fiske, UCLA