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Competence and intelligence are also a way of intimidating, though there is likely multiplicative utility with looks though. | Competence and intelligence are also a way of intimidating, though there is likely multiplicative utility with looks though. Intelligence is mainly signaled by producing things (e.g. jokes) that can fluently processed<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/s15327957pspr0804_3</ref> yet are novel, i.e. not boring. In case these things have serious value, laughing is used to pay respect, but also that one was able to process it oneself (thereby also displaying dominance in intellect). As in other domains, people are very conservative in whom they admit higher status as this entails less [[reproductive success]] for oneself, so people do rarely laugh at jokes made by someone of lower status. | ||
=== Bodily size and bulkiness === | === Bodily size and bulkiness === | ||