Abstract 1. The pursuit of social rank is a recurrent and pervasive challenge faced by
individuals in all human societies. Yet, the precise means through which individuals
compete for social standing remains unclear. In 2 studies, we investigated the impact of 2 ...

Abstract In many human societies, high male social status associates with higher fertility, but
the means by which status increases lifetime fitness have not been systematically
investigated. We analyse the pathways by which male status begets reproductive success ...

Abstract 1. Bridging the literatures on social dilemmas, intergroup conflict, and social
hierarchy, the authors systematically varied the intergroup context in which social dilemmas
were embedded to investigate how costly contributions to public goods influence status ...

... One possibility, though, is that both pride facets emerged to promote social status, but
along different avenues. 2. Two evolved status strategies: prestige and dominance. ...
3.2.2. Dominance, prestige, and related suite of traits and abilities. ...

... achieved by eliciting admiration, see also Gilbert and McGuire, 1998]. The idea is
that bullies have a stronger status need (combining dominance and prestige) than
most others and particularly than the victims they choose to bully. ...

Abstract Across four studies, the current paper demonstrates that smiles are associated with
lower social status. Moreover, the association between smiles and lower status appears in
the psychology of observers and generalizes across two forms of status: prestige and ...

... signaler might interact. Social status is now comprised of more than personally-
derived prestige and dominance; it now includes access and rights to resources,
access to persons in position of authority, and etc. In effect, the ...

... Prestige never replaced dominance as the basis for human status. ... However, deference and
affiliation are two key ways in which prestige-based status dif- fers from dominance (Henrich
& Gil-White, 2001), and the increase in such behaviors toward the individual suggests that ...

Abstract 1. Researchers have theorized that manhood is a precarious social status that
requires effort to achieve. Because of this, men whose manhood is threatened react with a
variety of compensatory behaviors and cognitions such as aggression, support for ...

... The significant correlations of strength with both prestige and dominance (which were
uncorrelated with one another) raise the possibility that the relationship between repeat
number and status-seeking might be mediated by physical strength. ...