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- ‘Dominance’ refers to this striving for attaining and maintaining high status. Within the realm of personality and social psychology, dominance is often conceptualized as a trait-like feature of a person's personality (i.e., it is an inherent, enduring, and relatively static aspect of an individual's social behavior).
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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.
Sep 14, 2024 · As we’ve seen, psychological dominance is a complex and multifaceted aspect of human behavior. It shapes our interactions, influences our decisions, and plays a crucial role in determining social hierarchies.
Sep 22, 2024 · Discover the psychology behind dominant behavior, its manifestations, impacts on relationships, role in leadership, and strategies for managing dominance effectively.
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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 first ...
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 cultural evolution and culture-gene coevolution. Below, we consider three key f...
The evidence reviewed above indicates that dominance continues to be a viable route to rank acquisition, impacting both social influence and fitness in humans across a wide range of contexts, and plays a role in human status asymmetries from the youngest of ages. However, the human-specific complications presented in this review cannot be overlooke...
Convergent evidence from multiple disciplines and from studies across ages, sexes, and cultures, show that agonistic and aggressive forms of rank-pursuit involving the deployment of cost-infliction or benefit-withholding strategies continues to be a viable route to social status in humans. Norm-governed coalitionary behaviors and human-specific eco...
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Dominance behavior refers to the motivation of an individual to achieve or maintain a high social status, which appears to be achieved non-aggressively in primates [15]. Thus, testosterone seems to influence an underlying motive rather than aggression per se.
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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Apr 16, 2012 · The dominance behavioral system (DBS) can be conceptualized as a biologically based system that guides dominance motivation, dominant and subordinate behavior, and responsivity to...
