Social Dominance

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of dominance rank metrics reveals multiple competitive landscapes in an animal society. 
  • Age and individual foraging behavior predict tooth wear in Amboseli baboons 
  • Age at maturity in wild baboons: genetic, environmental and demographic influences. 
  • Agonism and grooming behaviour explain social status effects on physiology and gene regulation in rhesus macaques. 
  • Androgens predict parasitism in female meerkats: a new perspective on a classic trade-off. 
  • Are apes really inequity averse? 
  • Can an agentic Black woman get ahead? The impact of race and interpersonal dominance on perceptions of female leaders. 
  • Canine length in wild male baboons: maturation, aging and social dominance rank. 
  • Children coordinate in a recurrent social dilemma by taking turns and along dominance asymmetries. 
  • Chimpanzee females queue but males compete for social status 
  • Coming of age: steroid hormones of wild immature baboons, Papio cynocephalus 
  • Deconfounding the effects of dominance and social acceptance on self-esteem. 
  • Developmental changes in pituitary-gonadal function in free-ranging lions (Panthera leo leo) of the Serengeti Plains and Ngorongoro Crater 
  • Distinct gene regulatory signatures of dominance rank and social bond strength in wild baboons. 
  • Dominance rank causally affects personality and glucocorticoid regulation in female rhesus macaques. 
  • Dominance rank-associated gene expression is widespread, sex-specific, and a precursor to high social status in wild male baboons. 
  • Effect of verapamil on submissive behavior in genetically bred hypercholinergic rats in a water competition test. 
  • Egalitarianism in female African lions. 
  • Endocrine correlates of pregnancy in the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta): implications for the masculinization of daughters. 
  • Evidence that gendered wording in job advertisements exists and sustains gender inequality. 
  • Female aggression and male membership in troops of Japanese macaques and olive baboons. 
  • Female dominance in blue-eyed black lemurs(Eulemur macaco flavifrons). 
  • Female rule in lemurs is ancestral and hormonally mediated. 
  • Geographic variation of caste structure among ant populations. 
  • Higher dominance rank is associated with lower glucocorticoids in wild female baboons: A rank metric comparison. 
  • Hormonal correlates of natal dispersal and rank attainment in wild male baboons. 
  • How chimpanzees cooperate: If dominance is artificially constrained. 
  • How chimpanzees solve collective action problems. 
  • Hypercortisolism associated with social subordinance or social isolation among wild baboons. 
  • Incidence and biomarkers of pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, and neonatal loss during an environmental stressor: Implications for female reproductive suppression in the cooperatively breeding meerkat. 
  • Incomplete control and concessions explain mating skew in male chimpanzees. 
  • Information content of female copulation calls in yellow baboons. 
  • Is it the inventory, the meta-analysis, or the construct? Reply to the comments on Marcus, Fulton, and Edens. 
  • Life at the top: rank and stress in wild male baboons. 
  • Mechanisms of sexual selection: sexual swellings and estrogen concentrations as fertility indicators and cues for male consort decisions in wild baboons. 
  • Meerkat manners: Endocrine mediation of female dominance and reproductive control in a cooperative breeder. 
  • Organizational and activational androgens, lemur social play, and the ontogeny of female dominance. 
  • Oscillations of attachment in borderline personality disorder. 
  • Peer status and aggression in boys' groups: developmental and contextual analyses. 
  • Perceiving social inequity: when subordinate-group positioning on one dimension of social hierarchy enhances privilege recognition on another. 
  • Persistence of maternal effects in baboons: Mother's dominance rank at son's conception predicts stress hormone levels in subadult males. 
  • Phenotypic characterization of Bbs4 null mice reveals age-dependent penetrance and variable expressivity. 
  • Phenotypic quality influences fertility in Gombe chimpanzees. 
  • Postnatal TrkB ablation in corticolimbic interneurons induces social dominance in male mice. 
  • Progranulin haploinsufficiency causes biphasic social dominance abnormalities in the tube test. 
  • Reproductive state and rank influence patterns of meat consumption in wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). 
  • Restoring neuronal progranulin reverses deficits in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia. 
  • Seasonality, sociality, and reproduction: Long-term stressors of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). 
  • Self-organizing dominance hierarchies in a wild primate population. 
  • Sex and seasonal differences in aggression and steroid secretion in Lemur catta: are socially dominant females hormonally 'masculinized'? 
  • Social Status and Gene Regulation: Conservation and Context Dependence in Primates. 
  • Social bonds of female baboons enhance infant survival. 
  • Social bonds, social status and survival in wild baboons: a tale of two sexes. 
  • Social context affects how rhesus monkeys explore their environment. 
  • Social dominance and 22-year all-cause mortality in men. 
  • Social environment influences the relationship between genotype and gene expression in wild baboons. 
  • Social facilitation, affiliation, and dominance in the social life of spotted hyenas. 
  • Social influences on survival and reproduction: Insights from a long-term study of wild baboons. 
  • Social status predicts wound healing in wild baboons. 
  • Social structure among vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). 
  • Socioecological correlates of clinical signs in two communities of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. 
  • Sources of variation in weaned age among wild chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. 
  • Stressful politics: voters' cortisol responses to the outcome of the 2008 United States Presidential election. 
  • Testosterone positively associated with both male mating effort and paternal behavior in Savanna baboons (Papio cynocephalus). 
  • Testosterone related to age and life-history stages in male baboons and geladas. 
  • Testosterone, antisocial behavior, and social dominance in boys: pubertal development and biosocial interaction. 
  • The effect of women's status on infant and child mortality in four rural areas of Bangladesh. 
  • The emergence of affiliative behavior in infant spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta). 
  • The influence of dominance rank on the reproductive success of female chimpanzees. 
  • The two-factor model of psychopathic personality: evidence from the psychopathic personality inventory. 
  • Variability in reproductive success viewed from a life-history perspective in baboons. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology