2023 Panmure House Prize. Link.
2023 Honorary Doctorate bestowed by KU Leuven. Award 2 February 2023. Academic Talk. Ceremony. Nomination, Laudatio, Video.
2022 Hayek Book Prize (18th annual) for The WEIRDest People in World: How the West Became Psychological Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Manhattan Institute, New York. Award June 8, 2022. Link. Academic Talk.
2021 Fellow in the Cognitive Science Society
2017 Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize. Society for Social and Personality Psychology (SPSP). Link.
2016 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Book of the Year Award for The Secret of Our Success.
2010 Canadian Institute For Advanced Research Fellow (CIFAR), Institutions, Organizations, and Growth (IOG) Group. Link.
2009 Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions bestowed by the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Link.
2007 Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition and Evolution (Tier 1)
2007 Senior Early Career Scholar Peter Wall Institute
2006 Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition and Evolution (Tier 2)
2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (United States)
2001 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg), in the research group on Social Norms and Economic Behavior (convened by Ernst Fehr)
1999 Society of Scholars Fellow at the University of Michigan
1997 William J. Fulbright Scholarship
1996 Harold K. Schneider Prize for best paper in Economic Anthropology, graduate division, Society for Economic Anthropology.