Across species, social hierarchies are often governed by dominance relations. In humans,
where there are multiple culturally valued axes of distinction, social hierarchies can take a …

Pride is a self-conscious emotion, comprised of two distinct facets known as authentic and
hubristic pride, and associated with a cross-culturally recognized nonverbal expression …

The pursuit of social rank is a recurrent and pervasive challenge faced by individuals in all
human societies. Yet, the precise means through which individuals compete for social …

" A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology,
economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more"(Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint …

The five-factor model (FFM) of personality variation has been replicated across a range of
human societies, suggesting the FFM is a human universal. However, most studies of the …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

Based on evolutionary logic, Henrich and Gil-White [Evolution and Human Behavior, 22 (3),
165–196] distinguished between two routes to attaining social status in human societies …

Drawing from costly signaling theory, we predicted that luxury consumption enhances status
and produces benefits in social interactions. Across seven experiments, displays of luxury …

Cultural evolution theory posits that a major factor in human ecological success is our high-
fidelity and selective social learning, which permits the accumulation of adaptive knowledge …

Why are physically formidable men willingly allocated higher social status by others in
cooperative groups? Ancestrally, physically formidable males would have been differentially …