Morendil comments on The many faces of status - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Morendil 15 April 2010 03:31PM

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Comment author: Morendil 15 April 2010 09:25:43PM 3 points [-]

close to the monkey life

That sounds like an allusion to dominance hierarchy theory, which my informal survey suggests is a muddle. Do you have pointers to solid, recent research on dominance hierarchy theory that could plausibly apply to humans?

People do sometimes react strongly to things we think weird, like not having the bigger Pokemon collection.

Comment author: CronoDAS 15 April 2010 11:02:33PM 1 point [-]

Well, there's anecdotes.