Experimental investigations of social behaviour in animals: Competitive orders as measures of social dominance

Competitive orders are now in common usage as measures of social dominance in laboratory studies. Their use in this capacity is based on the premise that since dominance governs all priorities to resources within a group it is irrelevant as to which of these is chosen as its index. As a result metho...

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Main Author: Syme, Geoffrey John
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Psychology 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4923