PSYC 3420 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Grip Strength, Schadenfreude, Fluoxetine
26 Jan 2014
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Chapter 12: status, prestige, and social dominance status and dominance hierarchies form quickly in one study individuals who did not know each other were introduced and within one minute a clearly hierarchy emerged. Prestige signaling, reputation, and leadership costly signaling also plays a key role in the acquisition of prestige in hunter-gatherer societies, signaling comes in forms such as throwing lavish feasts and providing meat from difficult-to-capture prey. Boys in all 6 cultures more likely than girls to engage in rough play, assaults and a sex difference in dominance motivation appears to emerge at an early age. Sdo is higher for men because such an orientation led ancestral men to greater. Evolution chapter 12 page 3: men appear to score higher on attitudes endorsing getting ahead, including those that justify one person"s higher status than another and one person"s group dominance over another. Evidence to support the dominance theory called deontic reasoning.
