Exam 12: Status,prestige,and Social Dominance

Mueller and Mazur found that _________ predicted attainment of higher ranks in the military twenty years later.

Prestige is defined as __________.

The best predictor of dominance status of a male chimpanzee is __________.

Winners of a competition experience elevated mood and __________________.

Men rated ______________ as more socially desirable than women did;women rated __________ as more socially desirable than men did.

Failure to display a submissive greeting to a dominant male chimpanzee by ___________ will often provoke aggressive retaliation in the dominant chimpanzee.

Social anxiety may be an adaptive response designed to __________.

When exposed to _______________ women rated themselves as less desirable than their mates;when exposed to ________________ men rated themselves as less desirable than their mates.

Elevated status can give men greater sexual access along which of the following paths?

Self-esteem,from the perspective of sociometer theory,is __________.

Women experience more envy over a rival's ______________ while men experience more envy over a rival's _________________.

In most social species,once dominance hierarchies form,they __________.

Which of the following is a key route to higher prestige?

When Brazil beat Italy in the 1994 World Cup in Soccer Brazilian fans' testosterone levels _____________ and the testosterone levels of Italian fans ______________.

Dominance hierarchies and production hierarchies differ in __________.

Betzig found that,among the first six civilizations,____________men disproportionately had _____________.

Prestigious individuals are sought for ___________ and _____________.

__________________ provides a powerful adaptive rationale for the evolution of dominance-striving mechanisms.

When told that a given man is of high status,participants tend to rate him as ________________.

Mismatch experiments which involve placing high-testosterone individuals into low-status situations and low-testosterone individuals into high-status situations revealed that __________.