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  1. Jan 10, 2022 · Dominance rank can also be acquired through conventions. In societies with convention-based dominance, individuals have unique attributes that single them out as the next dominant, (e.g. age, tenure in a group or maternal rank) without reflecting intrinsic characteristics that allow individuals to win contests [73,74]. For example, some social ...

  2. Dec 15, 2011 · Social dominance theory is a multi-level theory of how societies maintain groupbased dominance. Nearly all stable societies can be considered group-based dominance hierarchies, in which one social group- often an ethnic, religious, national, or racial one- holds disproportionate power and enjoys special privileges, and at least one other group has relatively little political power or ease in ...

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  3. Jan 12, 2022 · “Of all the behavioral biology topics, dominance must be one of the most familiar to nonscientists, probably because power structures are so intuitively familiar to us,” co-editor Strauss said. But contrary to conventional wisdom, dominance often has more to do with circumstance and opportunity than good genes or superior size and condition.

  4. dominance emerges in men and women, and how it interacts with institutions, culture, and forms of prestige status. Theorizing dominance Aggression in group-living animals is often stably patterned, with one member of any given pair tending to be the aggressor toward the other individual, who does not reciprocate,

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  5. Moreover, dominance hierarchies spontaneously reemerge, even if only subordinate or only dominant individuals are put together to form a new social group at each generation [13,14], implying that the social environment dynamically tunes individuals' brains to promote the best behavioral strategy given the social context, through synaptic and epigenetic plasticity mechanisms.

  6. Jan 10, 2022 · Individuals may track group consensus about position in the dominance hierarchy , track the aggression received by group members and use it to infer position in the hierarchy , monitor aggression network structure using transitive inference , remember their specific relationship with other members of the group , attend to signals reflecting competitive ability or some combination of these ...

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  8. Jun 10, 2020 · Social groups are commonly structured as a dominance hierarchy based on a ranking system whereby higher-ranked individuals have better access to valuable resources such as food and mates but they ...

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