Dominance hierarchy: Difference between revisions

[[Incels]] mainly see ranks in terms of ''sexual status and looks'' because incels think these play a widely underappreciated role for social acceptance. Incels use their own terminology to refer to different ranks of each sex: [[Chad]], [[Normie]], [[Virgin]], [[Stacy]] and [[Becky]]. The ''female virgin'' is not a low ranking female because virginity is only detrimental to men, and actually ''beneficial'' to women.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Males_gained_peer_status_through_having_had_sex_and_females_lost_peer_status</ref>

Social animals naturally compete for access to resources and mating opportunities which are limited in quantity and quality.

Rather than fighting each time interests are in conflict, the animal of higher status gets to decide in a dominance hierarchy.

[[Redpill|Redpillers]] and [[bluepill|bluepillers]] tend to [[chadsplaining|recommend]] to "be more confident", "take a shower" and "stand upright" to improve one's dating success, but [[Blackpill|blackpillers]] regard faking confidence as a fleeting solution at best, and as unnatural especially for introverted, autistic, ugly and other omega males who lack real status or significance on which they could base their confidence on, also fearing bullying for appearing overconfident and awkward.

Humans have the most complex behavior of all animals and a wide variety of things determine status such as competence, [[beauty|looks/ornament]], strength/intimidation, humor, power, prestige and resources. Everyone is part of many status hierarchies at the same time, which are either formal or informal.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/1594205078</ref>

Humans have various behaviors that are involved in status negotiation and signaling, most of which occur subconsciously.<ref>https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7877/6c171da1ecb4b308aaa0c95b1af6f11a1271.pdf</ref><ref>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4612-5106-4_2</ref> Some of them are listed below.

More dominant individuals have a more erect posture.<ref>Weisfeld. 1982. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00992459</ref>

For example, the grade received after an exam predicts changes in erectness of posture (r = 0.6 to 0.8) and people intuitively infer dominance from erectness of posture.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00992459</ref>

Erectness before the exam, however, does not affect the grade, hence dominance is not caused by erectness of posture, but dominance leads to a change in posture.

Ten months old toddlers are able to infer dominance relations between simple geometric objects by observing relative [[confidence]] and forcefulness in the object's movements.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21273490</ref> Since babies exhibit this behavior before socialization could have taken place and since one can observe similar behaviors throughout the animal kingdom, one can only conclude that such behaviors are innate rather than [[social constructionism|cultural]].

Related to confidence is [[cool|coolness]] as well as [[stoicism]].

Shyness is fundamentally an expression of low status as it is strongly (inversely) related to confidence. The entire notion of [[love shy|love-shyness]] can be seen as a confusion of the importance of social status with a narrow condition in matters of sexuality, offering questionable memes like [[antifragility|trauma]] as dubious explanation.

Bravery and war heroism appear to be male-specific dominance signals.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513815000239</ref> Also [[stoicism]], i.e. the downplaying of hardship and disease is a way to maintain dominance, and women have possibly selected men to have this trait, as men who showed weakness were more likely discarded by them.<ref>S G Brown. 2018. ''Female choice and male stoicism.'' [[https://www.ashdin.com/articles/female-choice-and-male-stoicism.pdf Abstract]]</ref>

Showing despair and trying too hard are a reliable signal of low status and weakness and it is the opposite of [[coolness]].

Analyzing and studying social interactions may be perceived as a low status activity because it may imply that one cannot get by without it due to some flaw (so one needs to "try hard"). Complaining about unfairness also tends to signal low status and desperation, which is why few men are [[MRA]]s.

Another simple aspect of dominance signaling is gaze and attention. 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>

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{{main_article|[[Voice]]}}

In one study, low status individuals accommodated their voices to the voice pitch of their higher status partners in an experiment.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272517738215</ref> Similar to status differences in smiling, this provides evidence that lower status individuals use signals of appeasement to avoid conflict and accept their position in the hierarchy.

Even though showing teeth is a signal of threat in most animals, in various higher primates including humans, the display of teeth with certain additional facial expressions (lifted corners of the mouth in case of humans) has evolved to ''negate'' the signal of threat,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUvpzIN7p1k</ref> indicating absence of threat and by extension, it signals positive emotion, benevolence, submission, compliance, appeasement etc. It also may have evolved as necessity for babies to signal all is good.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Brain-Hidden-Motives-Everyday/dp/0190495995</ref>

In portrait photographs from high school and university yearbooks, women do not smile 8% of the time, but men do not smile 41% of the time.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00287672</ref>

Laughing seems to have multiple functions most of which overlap with the function of smiling. Laughing is used to signal absence of threat. Absence of threat can mean that oneself is not a threat, i.e. a low status signal.

Less dominant people likely also accommodate their laughter to the voice pitch and style of their higher status partners and of the group, as it is the case with voice in general.

Just like smiling and looking away, blushing appears to signal submission/compliance/appeasement, with a wish not to receive more attention and judgement, basically acceptance of low status.

Blushing can also be caused by anger though (adrenaline rush causing high blood pressure), as well as by sexual arousal (also due to increased blood pressure), both of which the fight or flight response (historically sex was possibly quite dangerous and might have involved fending contending males who overheard the [[female orgasm|woman's moaning and mating calls]], who knows).

{{main_article|[[Beauty]]}}

Baby-faced round, soft and large-eyed, small-nosed faces are perceived as less dominant (weak and submissive).<ref>https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0022-1031%2887%2990045-x</ref>

{{main_article|[[IQ]]}}

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>

[[File:Klkkkk.png|thumb|right|300px|<center>human female pornography</center>]]

Humans appear to have developed a general representation of rank as a magnitude grounded in bodily size and strength.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X19301770</ref>

Bulky appearance is not perfectly correlated with actual strength, so it is conceivable human males have evolved bulky appearance to some extent merely as ornament to intimidate other males.

In particular, men who display cues of wealth are regarded as more attractive and higher status by women.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Photoshopping_a_man_into_a_luxury_apartment_made_women_rate_him_as_30.25_more_attractive</ref> As such, expensive cars, costly world travels etc. act as status symbols, enabling access to sex and social contacts (social resources). Women engage in material status signaling too, mainly [[Becky|to appear favorable]] among close female friends and to get access to Chad's social circles.

It has been suggested that the importance of men's signaling by such cues for sexual success is one factor preventing male engagement in low-consumption lifestyles.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_are_1.2C000x_more_sensitive_than_men_to_economic_status_cues_when_rating_attractiveness</ref> The main factor is probably rather the Prisoner's dilemma that retreating tends to result in being taken advantage of by others who don't.

{{main_article|[[Reproductive success#Violent_reproductive_strategies|Violent reproductive strategies]]}}

Raw violence is also a means of displaying dominance, in humans less so than in other animals.

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One can become an alpha by a dominance strategy (by aggression and intimidation), by a prestige strategy (by skill and reputation), or simply by [[Chad|good looks, muscularity and tallness]].<ref>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1987-21883-001</ref><ref>https://www.academia.edu/14471033/Reproductive_strategies_and_relationship_preferences_associated_with_prestigious_and_dominant_men</ref>

Some alphas are tyrannical, but others are genuinely good people. Life is good for them, so they have little to gain from competitiveness having already achieved easy access to high quality females. Such alphas can rather strengthen their status by maintaining alliances with betas and avoiding [[beta uprising|beta male aggression]] against them.

Examples for human alphas include: A fortune 500 CEO who marries a female underwear model, a rockstar with groupies, kings, gang leaders, almost any popular athlete, an unemployed good-looking thug who has [[women]] be his provider. Not all alphas are [[Chads]], for example [[Adolf Hitler]] was not excessively good looking, but very dominant.

{{main_article|[[Beta male]]}}

[[Beta]] males are moderately sexually successful and typically followers. They are usually subservient to alphas.  Traditionally, they usually exchange loyalty to alphas in exchange for alphas not hoarding all the [[female]]s. However, modern day betas tend to not (vocally) care much about getting laid nor who is ruling them.  [[Beta]] is a near synonym for "normie" or, "average male".  They generally have to work to bribe women with resource/job security, unlike alphas.

{{main_article|[[Omega male]]}}

Males who are totally unsuccessful with women are Omega males. They are often socially excluded and hence never get laid.

[[File:Erh.jpg|thumb|Do not take advice from this [[wagecuck]] and alpha male about how humans work]]

Hyper-liberal media and academia have challenged the notion of a human alpha male recently, saying applying such animalistic concepts to humans is pseudo-science.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165025407084054</ref>

[[PUA|PUAs]] often use the term [[sexual market value]] in place of status. In the former [[PSL|PuaHate]] and [[PSL|SlutHate]] communities, the term "DOM" is usually used to describe a [[Chad|masculine face]], but it also could refer to a large build or social dominance.

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