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Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Henrich@fas.harvard.edu ORCid: 0000-0002-5012-0065 ABSTRACT 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
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Jan 10, 2022 · Abstract. Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social hierarchies that arise from agonistic interactions in which some individuals coercively exploit their control over costs and ...
opportunities for anti-dominance behaviours from subordi-nates. Third, we review the psychological and behavioural evidence for dominance in humans, drawing evidence from research with infants, children and adults across populations. Finally, we closewith a discussion ofsomeofthe methodologi-cal challenges to studying human status and important ...
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. A growing body of research ...
chical rank within human social groups are the result of both: (a) coerced deference to dominant others who induce fear by virtue of their ability to inflict physical or psychological harm (i.e., Dominance) and (b) freely conferred deference to presti-gious others who possess valued skills and abilities (i.e., Prestige).
Jan 10, 2022 · The theoretical underpinnings of dominance as a concept within evolutionary biology are provided, the challenges of applying it to humans are discussed, and alternative theoretical accounts which assert that dominance is relevant to understanding status in humans are considered. Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social hierarchies that arise from agonistic interactions in which ...
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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. In this review, we ...
