Human dominance has been empirically conceptualized in four ways: attempts to dominate, outcomes of disputes, as a personality trait, and as perceived by others. This study investigated the interrelationships of these four concepts under different conditions Individuals classified as either high or low in personality dominance were paired in two dyadic decision making situations, separately with a high and low dominant person. All participants individually indicated their preferences in a series of binary choices, then these choices were the basis for determining each person's outcome dominance in the joint binary decision making During the dyadic situation, the participants' behavioral attempts to dominate through monopolizing and attempting to control the conversion by speaking longer and speaking first in a disagreement were recorded. Following the session each participant rated their partners' dominance and likability The three main variables of wins, vocalization duration, and speaking first failed to discriminate between high and low dominant subjects. These variables were interrelated in that subjects who spoke first tended to vocalize longer and lose more. Subjects, regardless of dominance, won more disagreements when paired with a low dominant partner. High dominant partners were rated higher in dominance the more often they won, vocalized, and spoke first. High and low dominant partners were not differentiated by the subjects' ratings of partners' dominance The self-report written measure of dominance did not correlate with behavioral measures of dominance or perceived dominance. However, there was a relation between behavioral measures of dominance and perceived dominance. The two vocalization measures had an inverse relation to the measure of wins, showing that some attempts to dominate are inversely related to outcomes. Overall, these poor interrelations among dominance measures highlight dominance as an ambiguously defined concept and account for some of the incongruity in the literature / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_27389 |
| Date | January 1982 |
| Contributors | Wenzl, Paula Annette (Author) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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