First paper for the new lab! I have a review out where I discuss recent research about information in animal dominance hierarchies. Thanks to Joey Cheng for the invite to contribute to the special issue for Current Opinion in Psychology “Power, Status, and Hierarchy”.
The specifications for this paper were to write a short review of very recent research (ideally the last 2-4 years) to provide readers with an update on the cutting edge of the topic. Animal dominance hierarchies have almost a 100 year history of research, so it was an interesting constraint to only be able to focus on very recent papers, rather the depth and breadth of the field.
The full paper is freely available here through December 2019 and here on the journal’s website.
Highlights
• Considering social information is key to understanding how animals make aggression decisions.
• Hierarchies vary in the extent of information present, from low to high information systems.
• Recent advances allow information in dominance hierarchies to be detected in novel ways.
• These insights into social information in animals can provide new research opportunities into structured conflict.
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