In men, high levels of endogenous testosterone (T) seem to encourage behavior intended to
dominate–to enhance one's status over–other people. Sometimes dominant behavior is …

Dominance hierarchy has a profound impact on animals' survival, health, and reproductive
success, but its neural circuit mechanism is virtually unknown. We found that dominance …

Hierarchical social status greatly influences behavior and health. Human and animal studies
have begun to identify the brain regions that are activated during the formation of social …

The concept of dominance is used in the behavioral and biological sciences to describe
outcomes in a variety of competitive interactions. In some taxa, a history of agonistic …

Different rat and mouse models are used in studies of social interactions. Simple behavioral
measures, which are commonly used in the laboratory, allow to perform relatively short …

The link between social factors, stress and health has been the focus of many
interdisciplinary studies mostly because:(i) animals, including humans, often live in …

Modelling complex social behavior in the laboratory is challenging and requires analyses of
dyadic interactions occurring over time in a physically and socially complex environment. In …

It is frequently assumed that variation in dominance status is in large part a function of
differences in levels of aggressiveness. This assumption and the reasoning underlying it are …

This review examines the ways in which dominant–subordinate behavior in animals, as
determined in laboratory studies, can be used to model depression and mania in humans …

A colony of Sprague-Dawley albino rats in a large outdoor enclosure was observed daily for
15 mo. In both the colonizing Ss and their progeny, social dominance followed a 2-stage …