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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 · Download full-text PDF Read full-text. ... We then review empirical evidence for its continued importance in human groups, including the effects of dominance—independently of prestige—on ...
Jan 10, 2022 · For the reasons we have described, prestige may often be more important than dominance in many contexts, but as we have reviewed, dominance continues to play an important role. Studies of non-human primates use multiple measures of dominance, such as resource control after competitive bouts, or directionality of aggression and formal dominance signals.
One might expect dominance motivation to intensify reactivity to subordination, and several studies have highlighted the importance of dominance motivation. In one study, implicit measures of dominance motivation were found to predict more anxiety in response to rigged negative social feedback ( Fodor & Wick, 2009 ).
A similar dissociation between dominance-based transitive reasoning and objectoriented transitive reasoning is apparent in human development, Like non-human primates, the social interactions of human children are governed by dominance 470 DENISE DELLAROSA CUMMINS hierarchies which determine who is permitted to play with whom where and with ...
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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.
