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Encoding power in communication networks.

J C Flack1, D C Krakauer

  • 1Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA. jflack@santafe.edu

The American Naturalist
|September 2, 2006
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In macaque societies, a group

Area of Science:

  • Animal behavior
  • Social dynamics
  • Primatology

Background:

  • Animal conflicts can escalate in gregarious species.
  • Third-party intervention is crucial for managing large-scale conflicts.
  • Intervention success depends on consensus regarding the intervener's power.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To measure and understand the emergence of "power" in social conflict resolution.
  • To investigate how group consensus on an individual's capacity to use force arises.
  • To analyze the relationship between power and social variables in pigtailed macaques.

Main Methods:

  • Studied a pigtailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) society as a model system.
  • Quantified group consensus on individual power using network analysis of dominance signaling interactions.

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  • Developed models to assess the robustness of power distributions against signaling errors.

    • Main Results:

    • The distribution of power within the macaque society is fat-tailed.
    • Power strongly predicts social variables like requests for support, intervention costs, and conflict intensity.
    • Dominance-signaling strategies create stable power distributions despite individual signaling errors.

    Conclusions:

    • Group-level behavioral macrostates can be more informative than individual-level details for understanding social interactions.
    • Consensus on an individual's power, derived from signaling networks, is key to effective third-party conflict intervention.
    • Dominance signaling in macaques provides a robust mechanism for establishing social power structures.