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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.
coevolution.fas.harvard.edu/publications/dominance-humansDominance in Humans | Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab
Jan 10, 2022 · Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social hierarchies that arise from agonistic interactions in which some individuals coercively exploit their control over costs and benefits to extract deference from others, often through aggression, threats and/or intimidation.
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Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social...
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1Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard...
- 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...
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2. The dominance archive dataset. The archive contains 436...
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- 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.
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.
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.
Sep 22, 2024 · We’ve delved into the evolutionary roots of dominance, examined its psychological underpinnings, and explored its manifestations in various aspects of our lives. We’ve seen how dominance can shape our relationships, influence our leadership styles, and impact our social interactions.
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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.
