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Neuroendocrine Mechanisms, Stress Coping Strategies, and Social Dominance: Comparative Lessons about Leadership Potential

Government Research Bureau at the University of South Dakota

Cliff H. Summers

University of South Dakota

The authors examine dominance and subordination in the social psychology, political science, and biology literatures. Using Summers and Winberg (2006) as a guide, the authors suggest that extreme dominance or subordination phenotypes—including social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism—are determined by an organism's genetic predispositions, motivations, stress responses, and long-term hormone release and uptake states. The authors offer hypotheses about the likely neurochemical profiles for each of these extreme dominance and subordination phenotypes and suggest two designs that begin to test these hypotheses.

Key Words: social dominance • authoritarian • Five Factor Model • neurochemistry • neurotransmitters • leadership

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 614, No. 1, 102-130 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716207305585


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