We trace the development of ideas about the relation of mood to social rank and territory. We
suggest that elevated mood enabled a person to rise in rank and cope with the increased …

Social rank functions to facilitate coping responses to socially stressful situations and
conditions. The evolution of social status appears to be inseparably connected to the …

Abstract The Social Rank Theory of depression conceptualizes depression as a response to
recognition that defeat will occur. This response reduces the risk of injury or death and …

Rivers and Josephs highlight the ways in which interindividual differences in dominance
and social rank are linked to the body and to health overall. To this end, they draw on …

Moments in life that involve discovering one's social rank are among the most emotionally
evocative experienced by humans. Reflect for a few moments on a time you came in first in …

Amid the deleterious consequences of prolonged stress, there is tremendous variability in
how readily various stressors provoke stress responses in different individuals. This review …

This chapter looks back over the past 40 years of taking an evolutionary function analytical
approach to mental health difficulties. One evolved motivational system that has been …

As Kraus, Tan, and Tannenbaum compellingly argued in their thoughtful target article, there
is little doubt that social class has a pervasive influence on human cognition. Here, we build …

Dominance and prestige represent evolved strategies used to navigate social hierarchies.
Dominance is a strategy through which people gain and maintain social rank by using …

An examination of the chemistries and subcortical substrates of social “dominance” behavior
has not been systematically reviewed in relation to the primary emotion circuitries described …