Dr. Edward Bell

Dr. Edward Bell

Job Title:

 Professor, Sociology

Type:

 Full-Time Faculty

Email:

 eabell@uwo.ca

Phone:

 519.432.8353 x28236

Office:

 Ursuline Hall 321

Recipient of 2023 Award for Excellence in Research
Recipient of 2017 Award for Excellence in Teaching (Full-time Faculty)

Academic Background

  • Ph.D., McGill University
  • M.A., University of Alberta
  • B.A., University of Victoria

Research and Scholarly Interests

  • Political Sociology
  • Political Psychology
  • Behaviour Genetic Study of Politics

Teaching

  • Sociology 2205A/B - Statistics for Sociology
  • Sociology 2206A/B - Research Methods in Sociology 
  • Sociology 3306A/B - Investigating the Social World: Quantitative Research

My teaching philosophy: “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire” (William Butler Yeats, with apologies to Plutarch). 

Representative Publications

  • Edward Bell and Julie Aitken Schermer. (2023). "Finite disappointment, infinite hope? The association between political orientations and sources of hope." Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 4. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666518223000049.
  • Edward Bell, Alan Bryman, and Steven Kleinknecht. (2022). Social Research Methods (Sixth Canadian Edition). Don Mills: Oxford University Press. 
  • Edward Bell, Christopher Marcin Kowalski, Philip Anthony Vernon, and Julie Aitken Schermer. (2021). “Political hearts of darkness: The Dark Triad as predictors of political orientations and interest in politics.” Behavioral Sciences, 11, 169. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs11120169
  • Marisa L. Kfrerer, Edward Bell, and Julie Aitken Schermer. (2021). “The Politics of Being Funny: Humor Styles, Trait Humorousness, and Political Orientations.” Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 1-5.
  • Edward Bell, Christopher T. Dawes, Aaron Weinschenk, Rainer Riemann, and Christian Kandler. (2020). “Patterns and Sources of the Association between Intelligence, Party Identification, and Political Orientations.” Intelligence, 81, 1-9.
  • Aaron Weinschenk, Christopher Dawes, Christian Kandler, Edward Bell, and Rainer Riemann. (2019). “New Evidence on the Link Between Genes, Psychological Traits, and Political Engagement.” Politics and the Life Sciences 38 (1): 1-13. This article was discussed in a piece in Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/caveman-politics/201909/nature-and-nurture-connecting-personality-politics
  • Edward Bell, Christian Kandler, and Rainer Riemann. (2018). “Genetic and Environmental Influences on Socio-Political Attitudes: Addressing Some Gaps in the New Paradigm.” Politics and the Life Sciences 37 (2): 236-249.
  • Edward Bell and Christian Kandler. (2017). “The Genetic and Sociological: Exploring the Possibility of Consilience.” Sociology 51 (4): 880-896. Nominated for the 2018 SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence.
  • Christian Kandler, Edward Bell, and Rainer Riemann. (2016). “The Structure and Sources of Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation.” European Journal of Personality 30: 406-420.
  • Edward Bell. “Genotype-Environment Interactions.” (2016). Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences: 1-8. Springer International Publishing.
  • Edward Bell and Christian Kandler (2015). “The Origins of Party Identification and its Relationship to Political Orientations.” Personality and Individual Differences 83: 136-141.

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