Christopher Dawes
Department of Political Science
Social Sciences Building 328
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0521

 

Working Papers

Friends Moderate and Association Between the DRD4 Gene and Political Ideology (with Jaime Settle, James Fowler, Peter Hatemi, and Nicholas Christakis)

The Behavioral Logic of Collective Action: Partisans Cooperate and Punish More Than Non-Partisans (with Tim Johnson, James Fowler, Richard McElreath, and Oleg Smirnov)

Social Preferences and Political Participation (with James Fowler and Peter Loewen)

Published Papers

Partisanship, Voting, and the Dopamine D2 Receptor Gene (with James Fowler), Journal of Politics, Forthcoming.

A Model of Genetic Variation in Human Social Networks (with James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Forthcoming.

Genetic Variation in Preferences for Giving and Risk Taking (with David Cesarini, Magnus Johannesson, Paul Lichtenstein, and Bjorn Wallace), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming. Appendix

The Role of Egalitarian Motives in Altruistic Punishment (with Tim Johnson, James Fowler, Richard McElreath, and Oleg Smirnov), Economics Letters, Forthcoming.

The Heritability of Partisan Attachment (with Jaime Settle and James Fowler), Political Research Quarterly, Forthcoming.

Two Genes Predict Voter Turnout (with James Fowler) Journal of Politics, 70 (3): 579-594 (July 2008)

Genetic Variation in Political Participation (with James Fowler and Laura Baker) American Political Science Review, 102 (2): 233-248 (May 2008)

Heritability of Cooperative Behavior in the Trust Game (with David Cesarini, James Fowler, Magnus Johannesson, Paul Lichtenstein, and Bjorn Wallace), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (10): 3721-3726 (11 March 2008)

Egalitarian Motives in Humans (with James Fowler, Tim Johnson, Richard McElreath, and Oleg Smirnov), Nature, 446: 794-796, doi:10.1038/nature05651 (12 April 2007)

 

Press Clippings

Chris's work with James Fowler was featured in the New York Times Magazine's 2008 Year in Ideas. The New York Times, Science, and San Diego Union Tribune also wrote pieces earlier in the year about their research.