Both human and nonhuman primates exhibit a cognitive bias to social threat, but little is known about how this bias develops. We investigated the development of threat bias in free-ranging infant rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) at 3 months (n = 45) and 9 months (n = 46) of age. Three-month-olds did not display bias, but 9-month-olds exhibited increased maintenance of attention to threatening s...

Social rank in human and nonhuman animals is signaled by a variety of behaviors and phenotypes. In this research, we examined whether a sartorial manipulation of social class would engender class-consistent behavior and physiology during dyadic interactions. Male participants donned clothing that signaled either upper-class (business-suit) or lower-class (sweatpants) rank prior to engaging in a...

In real-world social interactions, social status influences responses to resource distribution. However, the way in which one's own social status interacts with another's status to influence responses to resource distribution is far from clear. In the current study, we dynamically manipulated participants' social status and then asked participants to act as recipients in the ultimatum game (UG)...

combating corruption need a multi pronged strategy because of the unintegrated and distributed nature of corruption. in this paper we review literature of anti corruption strategy and extract 26 indicator with a preventive approach and present the indicator in a economical , political , social , administrative section for national strategy of islamic republic of iran .the experts accept the ind...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.11.002 0003-3472/© 2015 The Association for the Study of A The effects of social and ecological stressors on female reproductive success vary among species and, in mammals, previous reviews have identified no clear patterns. However, few studies have simultaneously examined the relation between social rank and stressors and the relationships among rank, ...

objective : this study examined forty nine instances of phobic adolescents pheromena classified in the following seven categories: school phobia, agoraphobia, zoophobia, claustrophobia, social phobia, physician fear, exam anxiety. method: the subjects were 120 female and 120 male high-school and pre-university students selected through random cluster sampling. the data were analyzed through des...