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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 we often think of dominance as a key route to social status, recent research suggests that there may be two paths to social status, each route paved very differently from the other.
- Two Routes to Social Status - Psychology Today
Just looking at grade school, it's easy to think that...
- Two Routes to Social Status | Psychology Today United Kingdom
Just looking at grade school, it's easy to think that...
- Two Routes to Social Status - Psychology Today
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...
- 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.
- Charlotte Olivia Brand, Alex Mesoudi
- 2019
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
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Jan 1, 2021 · In the dominance route, physical intimidation and coercive power are used to achieve high-status positions. In the prestige route, skills and knowledge translate into social influence and social status.
