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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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In this review, we provide an overview of the theoretical...
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opportunities for anti-dominance behaviours from...
- Why Hens
Moreover, dominance refers to the capacity to make another...
- A Dynamic Model of Reproductive Skew
At the same time, the dominant may be unable to exclude...
- DomArchive
2. The dominance archive dataset. The archive contains 436...
- Voice Pitch Predicts Reproductive Success in Male Hunter-Gatherers
Redhead D, Cheng J, Driver C, Foulsham T and O'Gorman R...
- Prestige and Dominance-Based Hierarchies Exist in Naturally Occurring Human Groups, But Are Unrelated to Task-Specific Knowledge
1. Introduction. Prestige and dominance are said to be ‘two...
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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 31, 2019 · In humans (and other social primates), anti-dominance instincts often escalate into large-scale coordinated leveling efforts to suppress the power of coercive aggrandizers. By contrast, prestige, which produces mutually beneficial outcomes with followers, is recognized and widely endorsed.
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- 2020
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 · Dominance in Humans. Wherever social groups exist, a dominance hierarchy will inevitably emerge, with unequal access to resources such as food and mating opportunities.
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Jan 10, 2022 · We identify five broad questions at the individual, dyadic and group levels, exploring the causes and consequences of individual changes in rank, the dynamics underlying dyadic dominance relationships, and the origins and impacts of social instability. Although challenges remain, we propose avenues for overcoming them.
