Dominance may refer to:
Social relationships
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Dominance hierarchy
In biology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social animal , social groups interact, creating a ranking system. A dominant higher-ranking i ...
or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community
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Expressions of dominance Power and dominance-submission are two key dimensions of relationships, especially close relationships in which parties rely on one another to achieve their goalsDunbar and Burgoon, 2005 and as such it is important to be able to identify indicator ...
in human relationships in general
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Dominance and submission
Dominance and submission (also called D/s) is a set of behaviors, customs, and rituals involving the submission of one person to another in an erotic episode or lifestyle. It is a subset of BDSM. This form of sexual contact and pleasure has been ...
, set of behaviors, customs, and rituals in an erotic or lifestyle context
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Social dominance theory Social dominance theory (SDT) is a social psychological theory of intergroup relations that examines the caste-like features of group-based social hierarchies, and how these hierarchies remain stable and perpetuate themselves. According to the theor ...
, a theory of intergroup relations
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Social dominance orientation
Social dominance orientation (SDO) is a personality trait measuring an individual's support for social hierarchy and the extent to which they desire their in-group be superior to out-groups. SDO is conceptualized under social dominance theory as ...
, a personality trait
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Abusive power and control
Abusive power and control (also controlling behavior and coercive control) is behavior used by an abusive person to gain and/or maintain control over another person. Abusers are commonly motivated by devaluation, personal gain, personal gratifi ...
, the way that an abusive person gains and maintains power and control over another person
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Dual strategies theory
In evolutionary psychology and evolutionary anthropology, dual strategies theory states humans increase their status in social hierarchies using two major strategies known as dominance and prestige.
* The first and oldest of the two strategies, ...
, dominance and its counterpart prestige as two strategies for gaining status in human hierarchies
Science
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Dominance (psychology), assesses a person's characteristic feelings of control and influence over his life circumstances versus feelings of being controlled and influenced by others or events
Biology
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Dominance (ethology)
In biology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system. A dominant higher-ranking individual is som ...
, in animal behaviour and anthropology, the level of social status relative to other individuals
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Dominance (ecology)
Ecological dominance is the degree to which one or several species have a major influence controlling the other species in their ecological community (because of their large size, population, productivity, or related factors) or make up more o ...
, the degree of predominance of one or a few species in an ecological community
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Dominance (genetics)
In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant (allele) of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the same gene on the other copy of the chromosome. The first variant is termed dominant and t ...
, a relationship between the effects of different versions of a gene
Mathematics
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Strategic dominance
In game theory, strategic dominance (commonly called simply dominance) occurs when one strategy is better than another strategy for one player, no matter how that player's opponents may play. Many simple games can be solved using dominance. The o ...
, a method of simplification for games
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Stochastic dominance
Stochastic dominance is a partial order between random variables. It is a form of stochastic ordering. The concept arises in decision theory and decision analysis in situations where one gamble (a probability distribution over possible outcomes, ...
, a situation in which one lottery (a probability distribution of outcomes) can be ranked as superior to another, with only limited knowledge of preferences
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Dominance order
In discrete mathematics, dominance order (synonyms: dominance ordering, majorization order, natural ordering) is a partial order on the set of partition (number theory), partitions of a positive integer ''n'' that plays an important role in algeb ...
, a partial order
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Dominance drawing
Dominance drawing is a style of graph drawing of directed acyclic graphs that makes the reachability relations between vertices visually apparent. In dominance drawing, vertices are placed at distinct points of the Euclidean plane and a vertex '' ...
, a style of graph drawing
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Dominance (C++)
Dominance may refer to:
Social relationships
* Dominance hierarchy or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community
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, an aspect of virtual inheritance in the C++ programming language
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Dominance (economics)
Market dominance describes when a firm can control markets. A dominant firm possesses the power to affect competition and influence market price. A firms' dominance is a measure of the power of a brand, product, service, or firm, relative to c ...
, in economics, the degree of inequality in market share distribution
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Strategic dominance
In game theory, strategic dominance (commonly called simply dominance) occurs when one strategy is better than another strategy for one player, no matter how that player's opponents may play. Many simple games can be solved using dominance. The o ...
, in game theory, when one strategy is better for one opponent regardless of the other opponent's strategy
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Dominance (linguistics)
In generative grammar and related frameworks, a node in a parse tree c-commands its sister node and all of its sister's descendants. In these frameworks, c-command plays a central role in defining and constraining operations such as syntactic movem ...
, a relationship between syntactic nodes
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Dominance (geography)
The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum distance to a point of equal elevation, representing a radius of dominance in which the peak is the highest point. It can be calculated for small hills and islands as well as for major mountai ...
, a radius used with topographic isolation
See also
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Dominate
The Dominate, also known as the late Roman Empire, is the name sometimes given to the "despotic" later phase of imperial government in the ancient Roman Empire. It followed the earlier period known as the "Principate". Until the empire was reunit ...
, mid-to-late Roman Empire order
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Domination (disambiguation)
Domination or dominant may refer to:
Society
* World domination, which is mainly a conspiracy theory
* Colonialism in which one group (usually a nation) invades another region for material gain or to eliminate competition
* Chauvinism in which ...
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Dominator (disambiguation)
Dominator(s) may refer to:
People
*The Dominator, nickname for Mariusz Pudzianowski (Strongman and MMA fighter), a five-time World's Strongest Man
*The Dominator, nickname for Wayne Johnston (born 1957), a Carlton footballer in Australia
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World domination (disambiguation)
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Social dominance (disambiguation) Social dominance may refer to:
*Social dominance orientation
*Social dominance theory
*Expressions of dominance
*Power (social and political)
In social science and politics, power is the social production of an effect that determines the cap ...
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