Your body does keep track of your place in the social hierarchy with hormones like Vasopressin, Oxytocin, Testosterone and Estrogen. Social hierarchies are biol

Your body does keep track of your place in the social hierarchy with hormones like Vasopressin, Oxytocin, Testosterone and Estrogen. Social hierarchies are biology not culture. You can tell it's biology because all social animals have social hierarchies. However, this is a very complicated and poorly understood field. Current research struggles with a chicken and egg problem. Does high testosterone cause high status, or do high status men produce more testosterone? The answer seems to be both simultaneously. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306452223001513 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03064... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/tre.372?msockid=0c0db612e284629938dba473e3e763bd https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/tre.372?msoc...