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Prestige and dominance based hierarchies exist in naturally occurring human groups, but are unrelated to task-specific knowledge

2018-09-19

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<p>Prestige and dominance are thought to be two evolutionarily distinct routes to gaining status and influence in human social hierarchies. Prestige is attained by having specialist knowledge or skills that others wish to learn, whereas dominant individuals use threat or fear to gain influence over others. Previous studies with groups of unacquainted students have found prestige and dominance to be two independent...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/s32rv

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