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Alan Fiske

{{Short description|American professor of anthropology}}

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| name = Alan Fiske

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| birth_name = Alan Page Fiske

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1947}}

| nationality = American

| field = Anthropology

| work_institution = University of California, Los Angeles

| alma_mater = Harvard University (BA)
University of Chicago (MA, PhD)

| thesis_title = Making Up Society: Four Models for Constructing Social Relations Among the Moose of Burkina Faso

| thesis_year = 1985

| known_for = Social relationship theories

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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.[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20200527045230/http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/relmodov.htm Human Sociality], Alan Fiske

Early life and education

Fiske was born in 1947. His father, Donald W. Fiske, was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago.{{cite web|title=Donald W. Fiske|url=http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/03/030410.fiske.shtml|website=The University of Chicago News Office|publisher=The University of Chicago|access-date=June 23, 2017|date=April 10, 2003}} His sister, Susan Fiske, is a social psychologist who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University.{{cite journal|year=2010|title=Susan T. Fiske: Award for distinguished scientific contributions|journal=American Psychologist|volume=65|issue=8|pages=695–706|doi=10.1037/a0020437|pmid=21058759}}

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 Ph.D. in 1985, both from the University of Chicago, focusing on cross-cultural problems and human development.[https://archive.today/20130409234930/http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/vita.htm Curriculum vitae], Alan Fiske, Social Sciences division of UCLA 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.

Career

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. His areas of research interest include psychological anthropology, social relationships, and theories of violence.[http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=764 Faculty page for Alan Fiske], UCLA Fiske is the author of Relational Models Theory{{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|pmid=1454904 |s2cid=17809556 }} and, with Tage Rai, the author of Virtuous Violence Theory - the idea that violence is largely motivated by the evolved social relations models which underlie moral behavior in Fiske's theory, and that this violence is therefore experienced as justified by the perpetrators in the same way that forceful opposition to perpetrators of violence is perceived as laudable and moral.{{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 |doi=10.1017/CBO9781316104668 }}

Publications

  • Virtuous Violence (2015). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Structures of Social Life: The Four Elementary Forms of Human Relations (1991). New York: Free Press (Macmillan).
  • {{cite journal | last1 = Fiske | first1 = A.P. | last2 = Haslam | first2 = N. | year = 1996 | title = Social Cognition Is Thinking About Relationships | journal = Current Directions in Psychological Science | volume = 5 | issue = 5 | pages = 143–148 | doi = 10.1111/1467-8721.ep11512349 | s2cid = 144754833 }}
  • {{cite journal | last1 = Fiske | first1 = A.P. | last2 = Haslam | first2 = N. | year = 1997 | title = Is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder of Pathology of the Human Disposition to Perform Socially Meaningful Rituals? Evidence of Similar Content | journal = Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | volume = 185 | issue = 4 | pages = 211–222 | doi = 10.1097/00005053-199704000-00001 | pmid = 9114806 }}
  • 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.
  • {{cite journal | last1 = Fiske | first1 = A | year = 2000 | title = Complementarity Theory: Why Human Social Capacities Evolved to Require Cultural Complements | journal = Personality and Social Psychology Review | volume = 4 | issue = 1 | pages = 76–94 | doi = 10.1207/s15327957pspr0401_7 | pmid = 15710561 | s2cid = 14773286 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.169.2341 }}
  • {{cite journal | last1 = Iacoboni | first1 = M. | last2 = Lieberman | first2 = M. D. | last3 = Knowlton | first3 = B. J. | last4 = Molnar-Szakacs | first4 = I. | last5 = Moritz | first5 = M. | last6 = Throop | first6 = J. | last7 = Fiske | first7 = A. P. | year = 2004 | title = Watching Social Interactions Produces Dorsomedial Prefrontal and Medial Parietal BOLD fMRI Signal Increases Compared to a Resting Baseline | journal = NeuroImage | volume = 21 | issue = 3 | pages = 1167–1173 | doi = 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.11.013 | pmid = 15006683 | s2cid = 7186842 }}
  • "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.
  • {{cite journal | last1 = Rai | first1 = Tage | last2 = Fiske | first2 = A. P. | year = 2011 | title = Moral Psychology is Relationship Regulation: Moral Motives for Unity, Hierarchy, Equality, and Proportionality | journal = Psychological Review | volume = 118 | issue = 1| pages = 57–75 | doi = 10.1037/a0021867 | pmid = 21244187 }}
  • {{cite journal | last1 = Nettle | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Panchanathan | first2 = Karthik | last3 = Rai | first3 = Tage | last4 = Fiske | first4 = A. P. | year = 2011 | title = The Evolution of Giving, Sharing, and Lotteries | journal = Current Anthropology | volume = 52 | issue = 5 | pages = 747–756 | doi = 10.1086/661521 | s2cid = 51686966 }}
  • {{cite journal | last1 = Fiske | first1 = A | year = 2011 | title = Metarelational Models: Configurations of Social Relationships | journal = European Journal of Social Psychology | volume = 42 | pages = 2–18 | doi = 10.1002/ejsp.847 }}

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