One recent psychology paper on human dominance is:
Tiedens, L. Z., Unzueta, M. M., & Young, M. J. (2007). The desire for hierarchy?: The motivated perception of dominance complementarity in task partners. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 402-414. pdf
Hopefully the citation trail from there will lead you to more relevant work.
Thank you, this looks quite promising.
I'm trying to do some research related to human dominance including social signaling and how dominance is both successfully and unsuccessfully challenged. Ideally I'd like to find what the common factors are rather than having it be too particular to one community or another. Unfortunately everything I can find on the topic is either about dominance behavior of other primates or is ad-hoc self-help advice by self-proclaimed gurus of social power.
Can anyone point me in the direction of the science of human dominance behavior?