Awards
The Human Behavior and Evolution Society Early Career Award and Lifetime Career Award recognizes individuals for their contributions to the field. In addition, each year the editors of Evolution and Human Behavior, the official journal of the society, award the Margo Wilson Award for best paper published in Evolution and Human Behavior.
2020 Award Winner
2020 Katherine McAuliffe
Department of Psychology
Boston College
Previous Award Winners
![]() School of Psychology The University of Queensland |
![]() Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
![]() Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania, USA |
![]() Department of Psychology University of New Mexico, USA |
![]() Department of Psychology University of Guelph, Canada |
![]() Carson School of Management University of Minnesota |
![]() Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University, USA |
![]() Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology University of Glasgow, UK |
![]() Department of Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
![]() Department of Psychology University of British Columbia, Canada |
![]() Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania |
Nominations
The nomination letter should include the following information:
- What are the general themes of the nominee’s major lines of research?
- What are the important research findings discovered by the nominee?
- To what extent have the nominee’s contributions generated research in the field?
Nominations for the HBES Early Career Award should include a statement about the worthiness of the nominee, curriculum vita of the nominee, a recent complete bibliography, and no more than five reprints representative of the nominee’s contributions.
Please note: The award is subject to the following limitation: The nominee must be no more than ten years post-Ph.D.
Nominations should be submitted ONLINE by 1 May 2021
Note: the Early Career Award is not necessarily awarded every year.
2020 Award Winner
2020 David Perrett
School of Psychology & Neuroscience
University of St. Andrews
Previous Award Winners
![]() School of Natural Resources and Environment University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
![]() Department of Psychology University of Texas, Austin, USA |
![]() ![]() School of Human Evolution and Social Change Arizona State University, USA Department of Environmental Science and Policy University of California Davis, USA |
![]() Center for Evolutionary Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
![]() Center for Evolution and Medicine Arizona State University, USA |
2014 (no award made) |
![]() Department of Anthropology University of California, Davis, USA |
![]() Department of Anthropology University of New Mexico, USA |
![]() Department of Anthropology Northwestern University, USA |
![]() Department of Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
![]() Department of Psychology McMaster University, Canada |
![]() Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, USA |
Nominations
Nominations are open for the HBES Lifetime Career award. If you wish to nominate someone, please follow these guidelines. Nominations for these awards should include a letter of nomination, a curriculum vita, a recent complete bibliography, up to five representative reprints and the names and addresses of several scientists familiar with the nominee’s work.
- What has been the significant and enduring influence of the nominee’s research?
- What historical contribution has the nominee’s research made to the field?
- Compare the nominee with others in her/his field.
- What influence has the nominee had on students and others in the same field of study?
- Where possible, please identify the nominee’s students by name.
Nominations should be submitted ONLINE by 1 May 2021.
Note: the Lifetime Achievement Award is not necessarily awarded every year.
2020 Winner
2020 Conroy-Beam, D., Roney, J. R., Lukaszewski, A. W., Buss, D.M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., et al. [105 others] (2019). Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation. Evolution & Human Behavior, 40 (5), 479-491.
Previous Award Winners
2019 Kyweluk, M. A., Georgiev, A. V., Borja, J. B., Gettler, L. T., & Kuzawa, C. W. (2018). Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability in Cebu, Philippines. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(1), 76-81.
2018 Coren Apicella, Alyssa C. Crittenden, & Victoria A. Tobolsky (2017). Hunter-gatherer males are more risk-seeking than females, even in late childhood. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(5), 592-603.
2017 Adar B. Eisenbruch, Rachel L. Grillot, Dario Maestripieri & James R. Roney (2016). Evidence of partner choice heuristics in a one-shot bargaining game. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(6), 429-439.
2016 Rachel Kendal, Lydia M. Hopper, Andrew Whiten, Sarah F. Brosnan, Susan P. Lambeth, Steven J. Schapiro & Will Hoppitt (2015). Chimpanzees copy dominant and knowledgeable individuals: implications for cultural diversity. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(1), 65-72.
2015a Casey J. Roulette, Hayley Mann, Brian M. Kemp, Mark Remiker, Jennifer W. Roulette, Barry S. Hewlett, Mirdad Kazanji, Sébastien Breurec, Didier Monchy, Roger J. Sullivan & Edward H. Hagen (2014). Tobacco use vs. helminths in Congo basin hunter-gatherers: self-medication in humans? Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(5), 397-407.
2015b James Holland Jones & Rebecca Bliege Bird (2014). The marginal valuation of fertility. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(1), 65-71.
2014 Jeffrey Winking & Nicholas Mizer (2013). Natural-field dictator game shows no altruistic giving. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34(4), 288–293.
2013 Maciej Chudek, Sarah Heller, Susan Birch & Joseph Henrich (2012). Prestige-biased cultural learning: bystander’s differential attention to potential models influences children’s learning. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 46–56.
2012 Alex Mesoudi (2011). An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: Payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but under-used. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32, 334–342.
2011 David A. Puts (2010). Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 157–175.
2010 Andreas Wilke & Clark Barrett (2009). The hot hand phenomenon as a cognitive adaptation to clumped resources. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, 161-169.