Dominance

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Dominance may refer to:

Social relationships

• Dominance hierarchy or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community
• Expressions of dominance in human relationships in general
• Dominance and submission, set of behaviors, customs, and rituals in an erotic or lifestyle context
• Social dominance theory, a theory of intergroup relations
• Social dominance orientation, a personality trait
• Abusive power and control, the way that an abusive person gains and maintains power and control over another person
• Dual strategies theory, dominance and its counterpart prestige as two strategies for gaining status in human hierarchies

Science

• Dominance (psychology), assesses a person's characteristic feelings of control and influence over their life circumstances versus feelings of being controlled and influenced by others or events

Biology

• Dominance (ethology), in animal behaviour and anthropology, the level of social status relative to other individuals
• Dominance (ecology), the degree of predominance of one or a few species in an ecological community
• Dominance (genetics), a relationship between the effects of different versions of a gene

Mathematics

• Strategic dominance, a method of simplification for games
• Stochastic dominance, a situation in which one lottery (a probability distribution of outcomes) can be ranked as superior to another, with only limited knowledge of preferences
• Dominance order, a partial order
• Dominance drawing, a style of graph drawing

Other

• Dominance (C++), an aspect of virtual inheritance in the C++ programming language
• Dominance (economics), in economics, the degree of inequality in market share distribution
• Dominatrix, a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities
• Strategic dominance, in game theory, when one strategy is better for one opponent regardless of the other opponent's strategy
• Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes
• Dominance (geography), a radius used with topographic isolation
• Male dominance (BDSM), BDSM activities where the dominant partner is male

See also

• Dominate, mid-to-late Roman Empire order
• Domination (disambiguation)
• Dominator (disambiguation)
• World domination (disambiguation)
• Social dominance (disambiguation)

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