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      • 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.
  1. 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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      evidence for dominance in humans, drawing evidence from...

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      Moreover, dominance refers to the capacity to make another...

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  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. Apr 18, 2018 · Human societies weren’t always male-dominated. The switch came when we became farmers – and that suggests ways to roll back towards a more equal system

  5. Oct 31, 2019 · Considerable evidence now indicates that in humans social stratification is principally based jointly on dominance (coercive capacity based on strength, threat, and intimidation) and prestige (persuasive capacity based on skills, abilities, and knowledge).

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  6. May 1, 2019 · While dominance is common across social species, including humans, Henrich & Gil-White argued that prestige is unique to humans due to our unusually extensive reliance on social learning.

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  8. Jun 29, 2023 · Nature Human Behaviour - The authors show that social hierarchies have a pyramidal structure across species. From infancy, humans use this assumption to infer unobserved dominance relations.

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