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This article discusses dominance personality dimensions found in primates, particularly in the great apes, and how they compare to dominance in humans. Dominance traits are seen in virtually all primate species, and these dimensions reflect how adept an individual is at ascending within a social hierarchy.
Oct 14, 2024 · The study of behaviour is dominated by two approaches. On the one hand, ethologists aim to understand how behaviour promotes adaptation to natural contexts. On the other, neuroscientists aim to...
Jan 10, 2022 · An older tradition in the measurement of dominance inspired by primate ethology uses purely relational measures (such as the direction of unreciprocated agonistic behaviours) to measure dominance as an emergent phenomenon specific to a group, which is closer to the theoretical foundations of dominance as a concept.
In a dominance hierarchy, individuals are arrayed in a line from most to least dominant; individuals are dominant to those below them in the hierarchy and subordinate to those above them in the hierarchy.
Sep 7, 2015 · The ‘prior attributes hypothesis’ posits that individual differences in fighting ability directly determine dominance ranks. By contrast, the ‘social dynamics hypothesis’ posits that dominance ranks emerge from social self-organization dynamics such as winner and loser effects.
- Mathias Franz, Emily McLean, Jenny Tung, Jeanne Altmann, Susan C. Alberts
- 10.1098/rspb.2015.1512
- 2015
- 2015/09/09
Jan 1, 2021 · Some of the main measures used to quantify dominance hierarchies in primates are described here. Two widely used summary indices are linearity and steepness. Dominance hierarchies are often measured in terms of their linearity, i.e., the degree to which the rank order is transitive (de Vries 1995).
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Jan 10, 2022 · It also provides a new metric, known as ‘dominance certainty’, which is a complimentary measure to dominance rank that assesses the degree of ambiguity of rank relationships at the individual, dyadic and group levels.
