Yahoo Canada Web Search

Search results

  1. Jan 10, 2022 · Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social hierarchies that arise from agonistic interactions in which some individuals coercively exploit their control over costs and benefits to extract deference from others, often through aggression, threats and/or intimidation.

    • Login

      Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social...

    • Download PDF

      benefits for others (prestige); and (iii) certain dominance...

    • Why Hens

      However, studies that rank individuals using aggression...

    • A Dynamic Model of Reproductive Skew

      When the possibility of acceding to dominant status is taken...

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. Dec 1, 2016 · Aggression and dominance status are mediated by neuroendocrine variables. •. Social network analysis promises to enhance study of hierarchy formation. Aggression is ubiquitous among animals, and contest outcomes in many gregarious species yield societies structured by dominance hierarchies.

    • Kay E Holekamp, Eli D Strauss
    • 2016
  5. 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.

  6. Jan 1, 2005 · In many primate species, dominant males achieve their position by agonism, either by way of aggressive encounters with established males in the group during “take-overs” or “raids,”

  7. People also ask

  8. Feb 14, 2017 · 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).

  1. People also search for