Neuroendocrine Mechanisms, Stress Coping Strategies, and Social Dominance: Comparative Lessons about Leadership Potential

William D. Anderson and Cliff H. Summers
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William D. Anderson: Government Research Bureau at the University of South Dakota
Cliff H. Summers: University of South Dakota

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007, vol. 614, issue 1, 102-130

Abstract: The authors examine dominance and subordination in the social psychology, political science, and biology literatures. Using Summers and Winberg (2006) as a guide, the authors suggest that extreme dominance or subordination phenotypes—including social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism—are determined by an organism's genetic predispositions, motivations, stress responses, and long-term hormone release and uptake states. The authors offer hypotheses about the likely neurochemical profiles for each of these extreme dominance and subordination phenotypes and suggest two designs that begin to test these hypotheses.

Keywords: social dominance; authoritarian; Five Factor Model; neurochemistry; neurotransmitters; leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716207305585

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