He recently received a Towsley Research Scholar Fellowship from the college for 2015-19 for his proposal “The Role of Virtues in the Social Motivation for Meaning,” and in 2014 he received Hope’s “Social Sciences Young Investigators Award” for his study “Examining the Interactive Effects of Group Status and Perceived Morality on Personality Judgments.” External support of his research since he joined the faculty in 2012 has included two other awards from the John Templeton Foundation, including one for a multi-institutional study that he has led focused on the role that the desire for meaning plays in the tension between scientific and religious belief.