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diegocaleiro comments on Status - is it what we think it is? - Less Wrong Discussion

20 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 30 March 2015 09:37PM

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 31 March 2015 06:30:10AM 9 points [-]

The technical academic term for (1) Is prestige and (2) Is Dominance. Papers which distinguish the two are actually really interesting.

Comment author: Creutzer 31 March 2015 06:42:39AM 4 points [-]

Can you give us some citations? I would love to read academic papers in this domain, but somehow I've been very bad at finding stuff that relates to the thing we call "status".

Comment author: diegocaleiro 01 April 2015 01:17:50AM 1 point [-]

Usually dominance is related to a power that is maintained by agression, stress or fear.

The usual search route will lead you to some papers: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=prestige+dominance&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2009

What I would do would be find some 2015 2014 papers and check their bibliography, or ask the principal investigator about which papers are more interesting on it.

I have a standing interest in other primates and cetaceans as well, so I'd look for attempts to show that others have or don't have prestige.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 31 March 2015 07:55:32AM 1 point [-]

I second Creutzer's request for links to these papers.

Comment author: Caelestis 31 March 2015 04:00:36PM *  0 points [-]

This one seems especially relevant to ChristianKl's comments above, but can't hurt here.

Comment author: diegocaleiro 01 April 2015 01:27:03AM 0 points [-]

If you are particularly interested in sexual status, I wrote about it before here, dispelling some of the myth.