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Between earning degrees, Fiske worked as a director and consultant to the [[Peace Corps]] in [[Bangladesh]] and [[Republic of Upper Volta|Upper Volta]], and as consultant to [[USAID]] for the [[Central African Republic]].<ref name=cv /> |
Between earning degrees, Fiske worked as a director and consultant to the [[Peace Corps]] in [[Bangladesh]] and [[Republic of Upper Volta|Upper Volta]], and as consultant to [[USAID]] for the [[Central African Republic]].<ref name=cv /> |
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Fiske held various professorships at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[UCSD]], [[Swarthmore College]], and [[Bryn Mawr College]], before obtaining a full professorship at [[UCLA]] in 2002. There he is former director of the Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, and of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development.<ref name=cv /> His areas of research interest include [[psychological anthropology]], social relationships, and theories of violence.<ref>[http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=764 Faculty page for Alan Fiske], UCLA</ref> |
Fiske held various professorships at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[UCSD]], [[Swarthmore College]], and [[Bryn Mawr College]], before obtaining a full professorship at [[UCLA]] in 2002. There he is former director of the Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, and of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development.<ref name=cv /> His areas of research interest include [[psychological anthropology]], social relationships, and theories of violence.<ref>[http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=764 Faculty page for Alan Fiske], UCLA</ref> Fiske is the author of Relational Models Theory<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fiske |first1=Alan P. |title=The four elementary forms of sociality: Framework for a unified theory of social relations. |journal=Psychological Review |date=1992 |volume=99 |issue=4 |pages=689–723 |doi=10.1037/0033-295X.99.4.689}}</ref> and, with Tage Rai, the author of Virtuous Violence Theory.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fiske |first1=Alan Page |last2=Rai |first2=Tage Shakti |title=Virtuous violence: hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781316104668 |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316104668}}</ref> |
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Alan Page Fiske | |
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| 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 1947) is an American professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for studying the nature of human relationships and cross-cultural variations between them.[1]
Early life
Fiske was born in 1947. His father, Donald W. Fiske, was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago.[2] His sister, Susan Fiske, is a social psychologist and Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at the Princeton University Department of Psychology.[3]
Fiske earned a bachelor's degree (Cum Laude) in Social Relations from Harvard College in 1968. He went on to earn a master's degree in 1973 and a PhD in 1985, both from the University of Chicago, focusing on cross-cultural problems and human development.[4]
Career
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.[4]
Fiske held various professorships at the University of Pennsylvania, UCSD, Swarthmore College, and Bryn Mawr College, before obtaining a full professorship at UCLA in 2002. There he is former director of the Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, and of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development.[4] His areas of research interest include psychological anthropology, social relationships, and theories of violence.[5] Fiske is the author of Relational Models Theory[6] and, with Tage Rai, the author of Virtuous Violence Theory.[7]
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
- ^ "Donald W. Fiske". The University of Chicago News Office. The University of Chicago. April 10, 2003. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ^ "Susan T. Fiske: Award for distinguished scientific contributions". American Psychologist. 65 (8): 695–706. 2010. doi:10.1037/a0020437. PMID 21058759.
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, Alan Fiske, Social Sciences division of UCLA
- ^ Faculty page for Alan Fiske, UCLA
- ^ Fiske, Alan P. (1992). "The four elementary forms of sociality: Framework for a unified theory of social relations". Psychological Review. 99 (4): 689–723. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.99.4.689.
- ^ Fiske, Alan Page; Rai, Tage Shakti (2014). Virtuous violence: hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316104668.
