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Competence and intelligence are also a way of intimidating, though there is likely [[multiplicative utility]] with looks. Intelligence is often signaled by humor which is things that need some amount of filling the blank, but can be fluently processed<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/s15327957pspr0804_3</ref> yet aren't boring. Laughing is used to pay respect, but also to signal that one was able to process it oneself (thereby also displaying dominance in intellect). As in other status domains, people are very conservative in whom they admit higher status as this entails reduced [[reproductive success]] for oneself, so people rarely laugh e.g. at jokes made by someone of lower status. Appeasing to someone of high status can on the other hand increase reproductive success as it may admit access to more resources. | Competence and intelligence are also a way of intimidating, though there is likely [[multiplicative utility]] with looks. Intelligence is often signaled by humor which is things that need some amount of filling the blank, but can be fluently processed<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/s15327957pspr0804_3</ref> yet aren't boring. Laughing is used to pay respect (i.e. admit someone higher intellectual status), but also to signal that one was able to process it oneself (thereby also displaying dominance in intellect). As in other status domains, people are very conservative in whom they admit higher status as this entails reduced [[reproductive success]] for oneself, so people rarely laugh e.g. at jokes made by someone of lower status. Appeasing to someone of high status can on the other hand increase reproductive success as it may admit access to more resources. | ||
There is evidence that, historically, men have heavily competed in competence hierarchies, e.g. men performed a much more diverse range of technological tasks in forager societies and often tasks that were exclusively performed by men, whereas women focused on tasks near home and reconcilable with childcare.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref> | There is evidence that, historically, men have heavily competed in competence hierarchies, e.g. men performed a much more diverse range of technological tasks in forager societies and often tasks that were exclusively performed by men, whereas women focused on tasks near home and reconcilable with childcare.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref> | ||