124: The Alpha Male Myth

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Some men label themselves alphas - citing an old study on wolves, but surprisingly the results might not be as applicable to humans (or even wolves) as you might have thought…

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References & Further Reading
Wolf Packs
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/wolf-pack-mentality.htm
https://www.wolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/267alphastatus_english.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21963347
https://wolf.org/wolf-info/basic-wolf-info/wolf-faqs/#toggle-id-21
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3881436

Animal Social Behaviour & Hierarchies
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180925-with-females-in-charge-bonobo-society-is-more-chilled-out
http://amydprice.com/hypertext_narrative/primates_research.pdf
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bonobo-sex-and-society-2006-06/
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/bonobo
https://www.britannica.com/video/193398/bonobos-humans
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/3/l_073_03.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/2180434-the-7-non-human-mammals-where-females-rule-the-roost/amp/

Human Alpha Studies
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30978215/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165025407084054

Alpha Male Pseudoscience
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2021/01/26/the-pseudoscience-behind-the-sigma-male-explained/amp/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alpha-male-alpha-chimpanzee-primatologist-frans-de-waal-a8421291.html%3Famp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/no-such-thing-alpha-male-2016-10%3Famp
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YTyQgwVvYyc
http://davemech.org/wolf-news-and-information/schenkels-classic-wolf-behavior-study-available-in-english/
http://davemech.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ExpressionstudiesP.1-10.pdf
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtFgdwTsbU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BPsSKKL8N0s

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