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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"social dominance"”.
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Group membership salience, social dominance orientation and task performance
… by reduced individual effort which is termed social loafing. Therefore the study proposed that by making people aware that they are part of a group and introducing intergroup competition, social loafing would be reduced and turned into social labouring. The study further investigated the …
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Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Behavior in Majority and Minority Groups
The influence of authoritarianism, social dominance, and ingroup identification on ingroup favoritism and outgroup discrimination in a minimal group paradigm were investigated in this study. Possible effects of majority and minority group size interactions with these constructs were also examined. …
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Understanding female social dominance: comparative behavioral endocrinology in the Genus Eulemur
<p>Female social dominance over males is unusual in mammals, yet characterizes most Malagasy lemurs, which represent almost 30% of all primates. Despite its prevalence in this suborder, both the evolutionary trajectory and proximate mechanism of female dominance remain unclear. Potentially …
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Social dominance in relation to other putative basic emotions in humans
… which appears to suggest the existence of a ‘social dominance instinct’. One such finding is that across mammalian species, groups of cohabiting animals reliably organise themselves into dominance hierarchies characterised by differential allocation of social and resource holding power, and …
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Relating Color Blind Racial Attitudes, Social Dominance Orientation and Just World Beliefs
… the relationship between Just World Beliefs, Social Dominance Orientation, and Color-blind Racial Attitudes. Beliefs in Just World (BJW) asserts that people believe in a world where, in general, good things happen to those that are good and bad things happen to those that are bad. Research has …
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Testosterone administration increases the size of womens' peripersonal space: An embodied index of social dominance
… self'. In this study we investigated whether the dominance enhancing effects of testosterone may reflect in changes of the representation of PPS. We conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled within-subjects testosterone administration study in women (N=19) where participants performed a …
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Sibling Aggression: Associations with parenting styles, social dominance behaviour and co-occurring forms of family aggression
… to a build-up of negative emotions, to maintain dominance or to overcome verbal arguments. The normalisation of sibling aggression was also important, particularly in relation to how parents responded to their children using aggressive behaviours with one another. In the third study of this …
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Uncovering an Alternative Social Structure to Social Dominance: A Blend of Ethnography and Community Based Participatory Research
<p>This study investigated social structures that are alternative to the prevailing assumption of Social Dominance Theory (SDT), which is that all human interaction is based on social hierarchies. The implications of social dominance impact health at an institutional, interpersonal, and …
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Tough But Fair: The Moderating Effects of Target Status on the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Fairness
… effect of target status on the relation between social dominance orientation and fairness in either a positively or negatively framed limited resource allocation decision. Participants were asked to read medical case files about either a high or low status patient in need of a heart transplant, …
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Resource control and social dominance in early childhood – behavioural, cognitive and affective factors in the first year at school
Social dominance in early childhood has traditionally been viewed as a social status based on aggression. However, through the lens of resource control theory, social dominance is attained via acquisition of resources (e.g. toys, friendship), which can be achieved via any behavioural means – …
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The mediating effect of dispositional mindfulness upon the relationship between right-wing authoritarianism/social dominance orientation and anti-Black prejudice
… between Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) (traits that have established connections to anti-Black prejudice), anti-Black prejudice, and Dispositional Mindfulness (DM) using a mediation model. DM did not significantly mediate the relationship between …
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EFFECTS OF SOCIAL DOMINANCE ON THE MORPHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY OF THE DIENCEPHALIC POSTERIOR TUBERCULAR DOPAMINERGIC NUCLEUS IN ZEBRAFISH (DANIO RERIO)
Social aggression is common amongst social species. It is used to establish dominance hierarchies and allocate resources crucial for survival. While aggression can stabilize social structure, it often leads to social stress among group members, and the resulting neurobiological consequences on …
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Discrimination: because I want to or because I have to? : a comparison between the explanations of social identity theory and social dominance theory for intergroup prejudice in South Africa
… attitudinal orientations, as implied by the Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) construct of Social Dominance Theory, or by the context variance favoured by Social Identity Theory. To this end, three studies were conducted. The first study was designed to establish whether the standard …
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Avatars and empathy: The use of video games to affect prejudicial evaluations of African Americans
… (online representations of the self), empathy, social dominance orientation, and prejudice. By having participants imagine playing in a game as an avatar I sought to test three hypotheses. Th first hypothesis proposed that that participants would be more inclined to support policies regarding a …
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Causes, consequences, and changes in sociopolitical ideologies in the U.S.
… ideologies: Christian nationalism and social dominance orientation. In paper one, I leverage data across four studies to examine the association between Christian nationalism and immigrant related attitudes and political policy in the U.S. Across these studies, Christian nationalism …
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Age Effects on Social and Investigative Behaviors in a Closed Population of African Elephants
… hypotheses to explain the development of social and reproductive behaviors. The reproductive hypothesis states that behaviors change around the time when an individual begins successfully reproducing, while the social dominance hypothesis states that behaviors change throughout the life of …
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Characteristics of Aversive Racism
… development, moral identity, nonprejudice, social dominance, authoritarianism, empathy, and social desirability. No differences were found between low prejudice people and aversive racists. People high in explicit prejudice were found to differ from people low in explicit prejudice on …
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Effects of prenatal androgen exposure on postnatal growth, estrous cyclicity and behavior in female beef cattle
… genitalia, estrous cyclicity, postnatal growth, social dominance and sexual behavior of female beef cattle. Pregnant cows received 17a methyl-testosterone (250 mg/d, sq) on d 40 to 100 (group 1), 70 to 130 (group 2) or 100 to 160 (group 3) of gestation. Control cows (group 0) received no …
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