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- Prestige and dominance are thought to be two evolutionarily distinct routes to gaining status and influence in human social hierarchies. Prestige is attained by having specialist knowledge or skills that others wish to learn, whereas dominant individuals use threat or fear to gain influence over others.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181621Prestige and dominance-based hierarchies exist in naturally ...
While it remains unclear whether social-164 dominance is an effective route to status attainment, these findings are suggestive, and cannot be 165 reconciled with the social-functionalist account. 166
Dominance isn't the only path to social status In every human society, people differ from one another in status. Those with higher status have greater power, money, and access to...
Aug 6, 2010 · Just looking at grade school, it's easy to think that dominance is the only route to social status. It seems as though bullies who use intimidation, coercision, and fear inducing...
- Scott Barry Kaufman
Jan 10, 2022 · Convergent evidence from multiple disciplines and from studies across ages, sexes and cultures, show that agonistic and aggressive forms of rank-pursuit involving the deployment of cost-infliction or benefit-withholding strategies continues to be a viable route to social status in humans.
Aug 6, 2010 · Just looking at grade school, it's easy to think that dominance is the only route to social status. It seems as though bullies who use intimidation, coercision, and fear inducing...
- Scott Barry Kaufman
May 1, 2019 · Prestige and dominance are thought to be two evolutionarily distinct routes to gaining status and influence in human social hierarchies. Prestige is attained by having specialist knowledge or skills that others wish to learn, whereas dominant individuals use threat or fear to gain influence over others.
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Aug 23, 2022 · Social status has been extensively linked to stress and health outcomes. However, two routes by which status can be earned – dominance and prestige – may not uniformly relate to lower stress and better health because of inherent behavioral and stress-exposure differences in these two routes.
