The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission.

By Joseph Henrich, Francisco J. Gil-White. Evolution and human behavior, 2001

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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The Costs and Benefits of Calculation and Moral Rules (2010, neutral): “This mode of decision making has mainly been studied by researchers interested in cultural evolution (e.g., Boyd & Richerson, 1985; Henrich & Gil-White, 2001; Richerson & Boyd, 2005).”
A Naturalist’s View of Pride (2010, background): “It is unclear whether prestige hierarchies exist in any species other than humans; such species would need, at some point, to have benefited from shared cultural knowledge (Henrich & Gil-White, 2001).”
Dominance styles mediate sex differences in Dark Triad traits (2015, background): “While dominance-striving is an aggressive and domineering style, prestige-striving is characterized by seeking freely-conferred authority and respect (Henrich & Gil-White, 2001).”
THE CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF FAITH Why innate intuitions are necessary, but insufficient, to explain religious belief (2011, background): “In particular, people should come to believe in counterintuitive concepts that most other people believe in (eg, Henrich and Boyd [1998]), those that successful, prestigious individuals believe in (eg, Henrich and Gil-White [2001] ), or those to which people make credibility-enhancing displays of t”
The Evil Queen's Dilemma: Linking Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry to Benign and Malicious Envy (2016, background): “According to an influential evolutionary model of social status (Cheng, Tracy, Foulsham, Kingstone, & Henrich, 2013; Henrich & Gil-White, 2001), hierarchies differ in how people attain and regulate social status.”
The evolutionary psychology of leadership (2014, background): “In traditional hunter-gatherer societies individuals develop prestige and authority based on the contributions they make to the welfare of the group (Henrich & Gil-White, 2001).”
Imitative and Direct Learning as Interacting Factors in Life History Evolution (2017, neutral): “Good strategies for social learning are known to be complex, and have been discussed in some detail by Henrich and Gil-White [41] and Laland [56].”
How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals. (2014, background): “Simple content-based heuristics such as conformist bias (Henrich & Boyd 1998) or prestige bias (Henrich & Gil-White 2001) could be particularly important for direct active teaching when the content of what is being taught is divorced from observable outcomes.”
Dominance and prestige as differential predictors of aggression and testosterone levels in men (2007, background): “If, as Henrich and Gil-White (2001) propose, prestige processes reflect a very recent evolutionary development, the psychological mechanisms designed to implement them might operate by suppressing aggression (among high-prestige individuals) that otherwise would be produced by the more primitive dom”
Dominance and Prestige: A Tale of Two Hierarchies (2017, background): “With prestige, in contrast, high social rank is freely conferred (Henrich & Gil-White, 2001).”
Are Ethnic Groups Biological “Species” to the Human Brain? (2001, background): “The supposedly “racial” categories themselves all blend insensibly into each other [Boyd and Silk 2000, Brown and Armelagos 2001]. sistent with the structure of social learning through prestige processes as defended in Henrich and Gil-White (2001).”
Witnessing excellence in action: the ‘other-praising’ emotions of elevation, gratitude, and admiration (2009, positive): “Henrich and Gil-White (2001) reviewed the anthropological literature on prestige to conclude that prestige, or ‘freely-conferred deference,’ is fundamentally different from dominance, which is obtained by the threat of force.”