Aborigines and European social hierarchy

Power, hierarchy and social preferences

I ran an experiment in order to evaluate the relationship, if any, between power, or the search for power, and the degree of altruism. In particular I experimentally tested whether an organization structured in a strictly hierarchical way was able to reduce the degree of altruism of a group of experimental subjects. The subjects were divided into groups and played a series of dictator and ultim...

Hierarchy in social organization

We 4nd that area and population distributions of nations follow an inverse power-law, as is known for cities, but with a di7erent exponent. To interpret this result, we develop a growth model based on the geometrical properties of partitioning of the plane. The substantial agreement between the model and the actual nation distributions motivates the hypothesis that the distribution of aggregate...

Sniffing Behavior Communicates Social Hierarchy

Sniffing is a specialized respiratory behavior that is essential for the acquisition of odors [1-4]. Perhaps not independent of this, sniffing is commonly displayed during motivated [5-7] and social behaviors [8, 9]. No measures of sniffing among interacting animals are available, however, calling into question the utility of this behavior in the social context. From radiotelemetry recordings o...

Aborigines , values and the environment

Social Dominance An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression

Social dominance : an intergroup theory of social hierarchy and oppression / Jim Sidanius, Felicia Pratto. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.