Dominance and Health The Role of Social Rank in Physiology and Illness
Dominance and Health The Role of Social Rank in Physiology and Illness
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支配地位与健康 社会地位在生理和疾病中的作用
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2010
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R. Josephs
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作者:
J. J. Rivers;R. Josephs
This chapter focuses on the role of social rank—the relative position of an individual within a social hierarchy—on physiology and health. In the realm of behavioral endocrinology, the study of the interaction between hormones and behavior, researchers wishing to study power have found it difficult to operationally define and quantify what it means to have power in an animal population, and have turned to studying dominance and rank within social hierarchies (Lewis, 2002). Dominance refers to behaviors directed at increasing or maintaining one’s social rank in relation to others in the hierarchy. Highranking or dominant individuals generally (but not always) hold power over others, whereas lowranking or subordinate individuals generally do not.1 Although dominance generally has been viewed as synonymous with power in the literature, Lewis has done an outstanding job in attempting to disentangle the two concepts. She presents the following case: