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  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.

  2. 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.

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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. 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.

  5. Oct 12, 2024 · In ecology, the term dominance is used to describe a species of animal or plant that exerts the most influence on other species of its community because its members are the most abundant or the largest.

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  6. 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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  8. Jan 1, 2021 · Definition. Dominance is the rank of an individual relative to conspecifics, which predicts the outcomes of social interactions and has consequences for access to resources and influence. Introduction. An individual’s rank relative to its conspecifics is a predictor of behavior, health, and reproductive output across the animal kingdom.

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