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#573 Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington: Evolutionary Psychology, Political Ideology, and Social Inequality

The Dissenter

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Doctor sh skeffington is a social psychologist interested in the mechanisms underlying our human sensitivity to powers, tatus and group membership. She says infants seem to have an understanding of social dominance relations between agents m before they can even speak. Sh skeffington: If you want to be at the top of a dominance hierarchy that's a human one, you need to make sure that you can also have status,. i e, sources of legitimization of your position. It's not just enough to be the bigger, stronger one.

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