Trusted, Automoderated users
17,538
edits
Dominance hierarchy: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Eye contact
| Line 56: | Line 56: | ||
=== Eye contact === | === Eye contact === | ||
Another simple dominance signal is eye contact. One study found that people pay more attention to men with high status cues. Interestingly, neither men or women pay more attention to women with high status cues.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_.28and_men.29_pay_more_attention_to_high_status_men.2C_not_high_status_women</ref> | Another simple dominance signal is eye contact. One study found that people pay more attention to photos of men with high status cues (attire in this case). Interestingly, neither men or women pay more attention to women with such high status cues.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_.28and_men.29_pay_more_attention_to_high_status_men.2C_not_high_status_women</ref> | ||
The attention paid to more dominant individuals is particularly noticeable during speaking and here women with higher authority get more attention too. | The attention paid to more dominant individuals is particularly noticeable during speaking and here women with higher authority get more attention too. | ||
More dominant people more often look away when someone is speaking, perhaps because they can afford to ignore less dominant people speaking, which is related to the effect in the previous study about the high status cues. | More dominant people more often look away when someone is speaking, perhaps because they can afford to ignore less dominant people speaking, which is related to the effect in the previous study about the high status cues. | ||