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22 Cards in this Set
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Emergence of dominance hierarchies
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- dominant people
- submissive people - function of hierarchy is on an individual level |
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Prestige signaling
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- signals that are costly are used to increase prestige
ex: -generosity - public donations to charity |
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Dominance
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force, threat of force, or the ability to inflict cost
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Prestige
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status obtained from freely conferred deference of others
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Social dominance orientation (SDO)
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men score one standard deviation higher than women on these meaning:
- men are higher in status striving |
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sex differences on social dominance
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women- settling disputes, leading a project
men- getting things done their way, getting someone to do other things for them. |
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Megargee Study
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when two individuals 1 high and 1 low dominance are put together to do a task. The results of % of hi dominant individuals that becoem the leader:
hi male lo male- 90 hi female lo female- 80 hi male lo female- 90 i female lo male- 20 |
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Resource holding potential
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self-evaluations of strengths and weaknesses relative to others
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Social attention-holding potential
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quality and quantity of attention others pay
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Social attention holding theory
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-social anxiety: motivates avoidance of status loss
-rage: motivates revenge on person who caused status loss depression: motivates submissive behavior Envy: motivates status acquisition, tearing down rival, and theft |
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Functions of self-esteem as a status tracking mechanism
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- motivational mechanism
- a guide to decisions about who to challenge or submit - track own mate value |
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dominance hierarchies
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determine the allocation of resources
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production hierarchies
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involve coordination and division of labor for the purpose of achieving a group goal
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SDO
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those who are high on this orientation endorse an ideology involving the legitimacy of one group's domination over another, the deservingness of discrimination and subordination of one group by another, and the allocation of mroe perks to one group than another.
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prosocial dominant acts
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women rated these as more socially desirable
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egoistic dominant acts
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men rated theses as more socially desirable
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Dominance theory
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proposes that the struggle for survival in human groups was often characterized by conflicts between those who were dominant and those who were trying to outwit those who were dominant.
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2 propositions of dominance theory
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- humans have evolved domain-specific strategies for reasoning about social norms involving dominance hierarchies.
-these cognitive strategies will emerge prior to, and separate from, other types of reasoning strategies. |
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deontic reasoning
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reasoning about what a person is permitted, obligated, or forbidden to do.
- seeking out violations |
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indicative reasoning
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reasoning about what is true or false
- seeking out confirmations |
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decieving down
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involves an actual reduction in self-confidence to facilitate acting in a submissive, subordinate manner.
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schadenfreude
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pleasure in another person's misfortunes.
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