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SHARING, RANKING, TRADING :THOUGHTS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
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Introduction
Communal Sharing
Authority Ranking
Equality Matching
Implicature
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We pay for expedited service and tip all kinds of personnel, such as cab drivers, for better service.
HOWEVER, what makes it scary about bribing a maitre d¡¯?
¡æ It seems unethical, feeling that maitre d¡¯ claims a different relationship with us.
Introduction
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Introduction
Pinker insists that there are three relationship types rooted in our evolutionary history and each applies instinctively to certain kinds of human dyads
Using implicature and indirect speech we can force the mindset of a given relationship type to move from one to another.
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1. Communal Sharing (Solidarity)
2. Authority Ranking (Power)
3. Equality Matching (Social Exchange)
¨ç Dominance symbolized by sizes (direct)
¨è Dominance symbolized by status & faces(indirect)
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Ex) Dancing, Bowing, Exercising
Reinforced by myths and ideologies
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Authority Ranking
The relationship roots in the dominance hierarchies comes from animal kingdom.
Based on its size, seniority, strength, or spaces, and one cedes it to another when outcome would be a foregone conclusion. In this way the linear hierarchy sorted.
The status depend on how much authority one are prepared to claim /the other are willing to cede one.
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¨ç Dominance symbolized by sizes (direct)
Look bigger(i.e. with the help of hats).
Bigger(leaders or presidents) are bigger than runners-up(second place).
Bigger offices, palaces.
Metaphors (i.e. big shot, top dog).
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¨è Dominance symbolized by status & faces(indirect)
Possession of asset like beauty, intelligence, and wisdom.
Taxi_ who appears most prepared wins.
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