Abstract
This research outlined a methodology and determined essential information for the definition of social dominance. An ethological perspective was used to design two situations in which to observe and record dominance behavior. A multivariate analytical approach was used to define dominance in each of the two situations. A comparison of the dominance orders obtained in each of the situations was obtained to determine to what extent dominance behavior of a group of rats, defined in one situation, was predictive of their dominance behavior in another situation. In order to test the reliability of the findings of this study, a complete replication was performed by a different experimenter with different animals. The results of the experiments demonstrated that dominance is a meaningful and reliable construct in the two situations tested. Dominance is useful, reliable, and generalizable for each of the two situations tested; however, the animal that is dominant in one situation is not necessarily the animal that is dominant in the other situation.
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