Egalitarianism as hierarchy control: Predictive social minds and the evolution of anti-dominance institutions.

IF 8.2 1区心理学 Q1 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-10-02 DOI:10.1017/S0140525X26105925

Sarfaraz K Niazi

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Abstract

Stibbard-Hawkes and von Rueden redefine egalitarianism as a process rather than an outcome. We extend this framework by arguing that egalitarian societies represent cognitive-ecological equilibria in which evolved psychological systems regulate dominance hierarchies. The six identified processes correspond to distinct neurocognitive mechanisms for hierarchy suppression, interpretable as distributed strategies for managing hierarchical risk within predictive processing.

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平等主义作为等级控制：预测性社会心理和反支配制度的演变。

斯蒂巴德-霍克斯和冯·吕登将平均主义重新定义为一个过程，而不是一个结果。我们扩展了这个框架，认为平等主义社会代表了认知生态平衡，在这种平衡中，进化的心理系统调节着统治等级。这六个确定的过程对应于层次抑制的不同神经认知机制，可解释为预测处理中管理层次风险的分布式策略。

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 医学-行为科学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

1.70%

发文量

353

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