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- Dominance is the aspect of social hierarchy that arises from agonistic interactions involving actual aggression or threats and intimidation. Accumulating evidence points to its importance in humans and its separation from prestige--an alternate mechanism in which status arises from competence or benefit-generation ability.
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Jan 10, 2022 · In this review, we provide an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of dominance as a concept within evolutionary biology, discuss the challenges of applying it to humans and consider alternative theoretical accounts which assert that dominance is relevant to understanding status in humans.
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Dominance in humans Tian Chen Zeng1, Joey T. Cheng2 and...
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Dominant individuals accrue social influence and achieve superior resource access and greater fitness through their greater coercive control over costs and benefits; they maintain their attained rank in a stable hierarchy through intimidation and threats.
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The dominance behavioral system (DBS) can be conceptualized as a biologically-based system which guides dominance motivation, dominant and subordinate behavior, and responsivity to perceptions of power and subordination.
Oct 12, 2024 · In ecology, the term dominance is used to describe a species of animal or plant that exerts the most influence on other species of its community because its members are the most abundant or the largest. In animal behaviour, a ruling animal in a social grouping is described as dominant.
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May 3, 2022 · Dominance is the aspect of social hierarchy that arises from agonistic interactions involving actual aggression or threats and intimidation. Accumulating evidence points to its importance in humans and its separation from prestige–an alternate mechanism in which status arises from competence or benefit-generation ability.
Jan 1, 2021 · In humans, the picture is far more complex and dominance is the product not only of direct physical contests between individuals (“physical dominance”) but of prestige, group membership (e.g., based on gender or ethnicity), and situation within large-scale “formal hierarchies” such as socioeconomic status.
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Dominance affects the phenotype derived from an organism 's genes, but it does not affect the way these genes are inherited. Complete dominance occurs when the...