For work submitted between 2018 and 2020
1. Yen-Sheng Chiang, Yen-Wen Chen, Wen-Chi Chuang, Chyi-In Wu and Chien-Te Wu
"Triadic Balance in the Brain: Seeking Brain Evidence for Heider's Structural Balance Theory," 2020. Social Networks 63, pp. 80-90.
2. Will Kalkhoff, David Melamed, Josh Polock, Brenan Miller, John Overton, and Mathew Pfeiffer, "Cracking the Black Box: Capturing the Role of Expectation States in Status Processes." Social Psychology Quarterly 2020 83, pp. 26-48.
Michael Rotolo. "Fight-or-Flight for America: The Development of Christian Nationalist Ideology during the Transition to Adulthood"
2019: Alexandra Maryanski, Emile Durkheim and The Birth of the Gods: Clans, Incest, Totems, Phratries, Hordes, Mana, Taboos, Corroborees, Sodalities, Menstrual Blood, Apes, Churingas, Cairns, and Other Mysterious Things. New York: Routledge.
2018: Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Evolution and Gender: Why it Matters for Contemporary Life. Routledge. 2016.
2018: Dalton Conley and Jason Fletcher, The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals About Ourselves, Our History, and the Future. Princeton University Press. 2017.
2017: Brea L. Perry, Indiana University, “Gendering Genetics: Biological Contingencies in the Protective Effects of Social Integration for Men and Women,” American Journal of Sociology 121(6):1655-1696. 2016.
2016: Jonathan H. Turner, Richard Machalek, and Alexandra Maryanski, Handbook on Evolution and Society: Toward an Evolutionary Social Science. Paradigm Publishers. 2015.
2012: David D. Franks, Neurosociology: The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology. Springer. 2010.
2011: István Back and Andreas Flache, “The Adaptive Rationality of Interpersonal Commitment,” Rationality and Society 20(1):65-83. 2008.
2010: Allan Horwitz, Rutgers University, The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder. Oxford University Press. 2007.
2019: Madeline Pape, University of Wisconsin, "Expertise and the Institutional Enactment of Binary Bodies.”
2019: Meng-Jung Lin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “The social and genetic inheritance of educational attainment: Genes, parental education, and educational expansion.” Social Science Research 86. 2020.
2019: Brennan Miller, Kent State University, Brennan J. Miller, Will Kalkhoff, Joshua Pollock and Matthew A. Pfeiffer. “Persistent identity threats: Emotional and Neurological Responses.” Social Psychology Quarterly V82(1) 98-111. 2019.
2018: Robbee Wedow, "Education, Smoking, and Cohort Change: Forwarding a Multidimensional Theory of the Environmental Moderation of Genetic Effects," forthcoming in American Sociological Review.
2015: Xexuan Liu and Guang Guo, “Lifetime Socioeconomic Status, Historical Context, and Genetic Inheritance in Shaping Body Mass in Middle and Late Adulthood,” American Sociological Review 80(4):705-737. 2015.
2014: Anna Bellatorre, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
2012: Steward Man-Kit Lei and Mary Bond Edmund, University of Georgia, “The Effects of Concentrated Disadvantage, Social Ties, and Genetic Variation on the Antisocial Behavior of African American Women”
2010: David Peterson, Northwestern University, “The Ivy and the Trellis: Agency, Biology and Socialization,” Pp. 293-315 in Advances in Group Processes. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 2013.
2006: Jerry Cullum, University of Wyoming, “Selection Pressures on Cultural Contents: The Role of Social Learning, Evolutionary Psychology and Dynamic Social Input in Accounting for the Evolution of Culture”
2005: Daniel E. Adkins, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Unified Stratification Theory: Structure, Genome and Status Across Human Societies," Sociological Theory 27(2):99-121. 2009.
2019: Noah Mark. University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “Status Organizes Cooperation: An Evolutionary Theory of Status and Social Order.”
Best Book or Article Award
Must be published between 2018 and 2020 by a member (or members) of the EBS section. Nominations (including self-nominations) and a copy of the article should be sent electronically to all three members of the committee by April 2, 2021. If you have any questions about this award, please direct your inquiries to the committee chair. At least one author of the nominated article must be a member of the EBS.
The committee for this award is composed of:
Professor Jonathan Turner turn@ucr.edu (chair)
Professor Kevin McCaffree Kevin.Mccaffree@unt.edu
Professor Marion Blute marion.blute@utoronto.ca
Annual Best Paper Award for Student Members
Published or unpublished articles are acceptable, as long as the publication date or acceptance is within the period 2018-2020. Co-authored papers, including with faculty, are eligible as long as a student is the first author. All author(s) must be members of the Evolution, Biology & Society Section at the time of submission to qualify for the award. The award is shared among all student authors.
Nominations (including self-nominations) and copies of the paper should be sent electronically to the committee members listed below by April 2, 2021.
The committee for this award is composed of:
Yen-Sheng Chiang Email: chiangys@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Rengin Firat Email: rbfirat@ucr.edu,
Alexandra Maryanski Email: alexandra.maryanski@ucr.edu