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  1. 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. Accumulating evidence points to its importance in humans and its ...

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  2. The real reason humans are the dominant species. From early humans rubbing sticks together to make fire, to the fossil fuels that drove the industrial revolution, energy has played a central role ...

  3. Challenges to dominance in humans Although we have every reason to suspect that the evolutionary processes and incentives identified by the logic of the models described above will apply to humans, identifying and studying dominance in our species poses particular challenges due to the influence of both

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  4. Jan 10, 2022 · Across species, social hierarchies are often governed by dominance relations. In humans, where there are multiple culturally valued axes of distinction, social hierarchies can take a variety of forms and need not rest on dominance relations. Consequently, humans navigate multiple domains of status, i.e. relative standing.

  5. Oct 31, 2019 · How humans and other social species form social hierarchies is one of the oldest puzzles of the behavioral and biological sciences. 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. Jan 1, 2021 · Dominance in humans is much more complex than the primate cases described above and is the product not only of direct physical contests between individuals (‘physical dominance’) but of variables such as 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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  8. Various explanations have been posed for why dominance has declined in prominence within human personality factor structures, and several possibilities are evaluated. The value of dominance in personality research is discussed: dominance has links to, for instance, age, sex, aggression, self-esteem, locus of control, stress, health, and multiple socioeconomic status indicators.