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 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).
- Fiske, A.P.; Haslam, N. (1996). "Social Cognition Is Thinking About Relationships". Current Directions in Psychological Science. 5: 143–148. doi:10.1111/1467-8721.ep11512349.
- Fiske, A.P.; Haslam, N. (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. doi:10.1097/00005053-199704000-00001.
- 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.
- Fiske, A (2000). "Complementarity Theory: Why Human Social Capacities Evolved to Require Cultural Complements". Personality and Social Psychology Review. 4: 76–94. doi:10.1207/s15327957pspr0401_7.
- Iacoboni, M.; Lieberman, M. D.; Knowlton, B. J.; Molnar-Szakacs, I.; Moritz, M.; Throop, J.; Fiske, A. P. (2004). "Watching Social Interactions Produces Dorsomedial Prefrontal and Medial Parietal BOLD fMRI Signal Increases Compared to a Resting Baseline". NeuroImage. 21: 1167–1173. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.11.013. PMID 15006683.
- "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.
- Rai, Tage; Fiske, A. P. (2011). "Moral Psychology is Relationship Regulation: Moral Motives for Unity, Hierarchy, Equality, and Proportionality". Psychological Review. 118 (1): 57–75. doi:10.1037/a0021867. PMID 21244187.
- Nettle, Daniel; Panchanathan, Karthik; Rai, Tage; Fiske, A. P. (2011). "The Evolution of Giving, Sharing, and Lotteries". Current Anthropology. 52: 747–756. doi:10.1086/661521.
- Fiske, A (2011). "Metarelational Models: Configurations of Social Relationships". 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. PMID 1454904.
- ^ Fiske, Alan Page; Rai, Tage Shakti (2014). Virtuous violence: hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781316104668. ISBN 9781316104668.
