Dominance and submission behaviors have long been known to be genetically influenced in animals

Evidence

Looking back, I can see that I was blocking out another part of the teaching department. in my cerebral cortex. It says in my social psychology lecture notes that most animal societies have well-established dominance systems. “Alpha” animals usually dominate everyone else, who submit to them and all others above them in the pecking order. The behaviors that determine dominance versus submission in a pair of animals were linked long ago by Delgato (1963a, 1963b, 1964, 1965) to parts of the limbic system in the brain, whose operation could be genetically influenced. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 894

Categorization

• XREF: The animal dominance paradigm parallels the authoritarian dominance/submission dimension — connects to ethology literature (Lorenz, Tinbergen, E.O. Wilson). — connects to: Animal dominance hierarchies poorly model human status structures — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 62
• QUESTION: The text cuts off at ‘Delgato’ — an incomplete reference worth checking: is this José Delgado’s brain-stimulation work on dominance in cats?