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Dominance hierarchies are regulated by various inherited behaviors, emotions and abilities, for example the ability to remember and recognize one's own and other's ranks quickly and reliably, and they also include emotions like ''status drive'' (envy, admiration), as well as signals of high rank (confidence) and signals of acceptance of lower rank (withdrawal, submission, blushing, smiling, depression and anxiety). | Dominance hierarchies are regulated by various inherited behaviors, emotions and abilities, for example the ability to remember and recognize one's own and other's ranks quickly and reliably, and they also include emotions like ''status drive'' (envy, admiration), as well as signals of high rank (confidence) and signals of acceptance of lower rank (withdrawal, submission, blushing, smiling, depression and anxiety). | ||
Humans who pretend to have higher rank than they deserve are [[bullying|put into their place]]. | Humans who pretend to have higher rank than they deserve are [[bullying|put into their place]], or at least challenged. For this reason, confidence is a ''hard-to-fake'' signal of high status. | ||
The event of someone's status being challenged arouses high interest and excitement from everyone in the dominance hierarchy. This is in part why watching sports is exciting. | The event of someone's status being challenged arouses high interest and excitement from everyone in the dominance hierarchy. This is in part why watching sports is exciting. | ||