1. Status

2. What is Status?
Definition
Non-Human Animals
Human Animals

3. Dominance Hierarchy Purpose of Hierarchy Losers Regaining Status
Status is Dynamic

4. Status Competition: Mostly a Male Thing
Male Competition
Mating Gender Gap
Dominant Males
Kings and Harems

5. Other Evidence Boys at Play Men at Work Selfish vs. Prosocial
Egalitarian Societies

6. The Emotions of Status
Gaining Status
Losing Status

7. What Determines Status?
Male Non-verbals
Size
Structure
Hormones
---Testosterone

8. Social Determinants Perceived Status Perceived Inclusiveness
Perceived Attractiveness

9. Status Put to Work Males vs. Females Personals Ads ---Responses
---Women

10. More Personals Ads Research
High Status Females
Women with Resources
Older Males
---Adolescent Males

11. Even More Attractive Females Picture vs. No Picture Musical Ability
---Rock Stars

12. Competition
Intrasexual- competition between one sex, the outcomes of which contributed to mating access to the other sex.
In male animals
In humans
Intersexual- if members of one sex have some consensus about the qualities that are desired in members of the opposite sex, then individuals of the opposite sex will be preferentially chosen (sexual selection).
Humans
Differences in Sex Strategies

13. Competition Gone Wild
Supernormal Stimuli--exaggerated version of a stimulus to which there is an existing response.
Functional Autonomy--when the motives for a behavior are independent of their origin.