Social Dominance
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

When race matters: racially stigmatized others and perceiving race as a biological construction affect biracial people's daily well-being.

30 Aug 2009 Stigmatized group members experience greater well-being in the presence of similar others, which may be driven by the perception that similar others value their shared stigmatized identities (i.e., high public regard). Using experience sampling ... Read more...

Postnatal mental distress in relation to the sociocultural practices of childbirth: an exploratory qualitative study from Ethiopia.

22 Aug 2009 Sociocultural patterning of the postnatal period in non-Western settings has been hypothesised to protect against postnatal depression. In 2004, in a predominantly rural area of Ethiopia, we conducted 25 in-depth interviews and five focus group ... Read more...

Duetting--a mechanism to strengthen pair bonds in a dispersed pair-living primate (Lepilemur edwardsi)?

30 Jul 2009 Duetting is defined as an interactively organized pair display in which one pair partner coordinates its vocalizations in time with those of the other. It is widespread among tropical birds and cohesive pair-living primates, in which it is suggested ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Social Dominance'

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• When race matters: racially stigmatized others and perceiving race as a biological construction affect biracial people's daily well-being. 30 Aug 2009
• Postnatal mental distress in relation to the sociocultural practices of childbirth: an exploratory qualitative study from Ethiopia. 22 Aug 2009
• Duetting--a mechanism to strengthen pair bonds in a dispersed pair-living primate (Lepilemur edwardsi)? 30 Jul 2009
• Spiny lobsters use urine-borne olfactory signaling and physical aggressive behaviors to influence social status of conspecifics. 30 Jul 2009
• Spatiotemporal symmetry and multifractal structure of head movements during dyadic conversation. 30 Jul 2009
• Revisiting play elements and self-handicapping in play: a comparative ethogram of five Old World monkey species. 30 Jul 2009
• Where sociality and relatedness diverge: the genetic basis for hierarchical social organization in African elephants. 13 Jul 2009
• Juvenile hormone and the ontogeny of cockroach aggression. 6 Jul 2009
• Sperm: seminal fluid interactions and the adjustment of sperm quality in relation to female attractiveness. 6 Jul 2009
• [The energetic cost of social behavior in mice under activation of the nonspecific immunity] 29 Jun 2009
• [Interstrain differences in social and time patterns of agonistic behavior in male laboratory mice] 29 Jun 2009
• Agonistic behavior enhances adult neurogenesis in male Acheta domesticus crickets. 29 Jun 2009
• Hearing ability in three clownfish species. 29 Jun 2009
• Paternal care, aggressiveness, and testosterone secretion in male mandarin voles (Lasiopodomys mandarinus). 29 Jun 2009
• Political conservatism, authoritarianism, and societal threat: voting for Republican representatives in U.S. Congressional elections from 1946 to 1992. 29 Jun 2009
• "AIDS is rape!" gender and sexuality in children's responses to HIV and AIDS. 23 Jun 2009
• Threats to safe motherhood in Honduran Miskito communities: local perceptions of factors that contribute to maternal mortality. 23 Jun 2009
• Sexual selection explains sex-specific growth plasticity and positive allometry for sexual size dimorphism in a reef fish. 22 Jun 2009
• Brain organization mirrors caste differences, colony founding and nest architecture in paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). 22 Jun 2009
• Profile of Raghavendra Gadagkar. 22 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Social Dominance'

Definition: Social structure of a group as it relates to the relative social rank of dominance status of its members. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)

Descriptor UI: D012930

Alternative terms: Social Dominance; Dominance Hierarchy; Dominance Hierarchies; Hierarchy, Dominance; Dominance, Social;

Tree Number: F01.145.813.650;

Online Note: use SOCIAL DOMINANCE to search DOMINANCE, SOCIAL 1968

History Note: 69; was DOMINANCE, SOCIAL 1968

Technical Notes: human & animal