DeVliegendeHollander comments on Social status hacks from The Improv Wiki - Less Wrong

41 Post author: lsparrish 21 March 2012 02:56AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 20 April 2015 10:00:50AM 1 point [-]

Have you ever thought about this: one of the core aspects of specifically human social intelligence as opposed to other species is to read emotions from each others faces, and humans have more facial muscles to express these emotions than other species, yet, an "alpha male" will usually have an expressionless, stony face? And men who have expressive facial mimics (Rob Schneider, maybe Steven Buscemi etc.) come accross as kind of submissive? So one of the most core human characteristics is not used by the highest status folks?

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 04 May 2015 11:26:31AM 0 points [-]

Uhm, countersignalling? "I am so powerful that I do not need this ability."

Specifically: "I am so powerful that I do not need the abilities that make cooperation easier; others obey me anyway."