Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The Two Modes -- Group Structures -- Forms of Social Stability -- The Bimodal Switch -- Method and its Consequences -- The Human Systems-forming Faculty -- A Systems-based Social Science -- Human Implications -- 1. A Systems Synthesis of Mentality -- 2. Social Geometry and Cohesion in Three Primate Species -- Phenomena of Social Geometry -- Social Geometry and Social Dynamics -- Scope of the Empirical Studies -- Review of the Empirical Studies -- Implications for Theoretical Ethology -- Social Geometry and Social Cohesion -- 3. Social Attention and Social Awareness -- 4. The Cohesive Foragers: Human and Chimpanzee -- Current Understanding -- The Mutual-dependence System -- Characteristics of Human Foraging Societies -- Factors of Social Cohesion -- Connections and Implications -- 5. The Reconciled Hierarchy -- Introduction -- Aggression-Affection Sequences -- The Affective Component of the Hierarchy -- Chimpanzee Social Organisation -- Conclusion -- 6. The Origin of Human Equality -- Introduction -- Inequality versus Equality -- The Original Inequality -- The Origin and Evolution of Equality -- Fear of Civil Inequality -- 7. Alternative Channels for Negotiating Asymmetry in Social Relationships -- The Yielding Subroutine of Ritual Agonistic Behaviour -- The Yielding Subroutine and Depression -- Summary -- 8. Psychiatric Syndromes as Infrastructure for Intra-specific Communication -- Setting the Biological Question -- Intra-specific Communication Delineated -- Homology as a Relative Concept -- Psychiatric Syndromes Described -- Delineation of Psalics -- A Clinical Population Characterised by Psalics -- Psalics and Ordinary Communicational Exchanges -- Summary -- 9. The Therapeutic Use of an Ethogram in a Drug Addiction Unit -- 10. Social Interactions of Young Children with Peers and their Modifications in Relation to Environmental Factors -- Populations and Methods -- Results -- Discussion and Conclusions -- 11. The Structure of Politically Relevant Behaviours in Pre-school Peer Groups -- Governance Functions -- Data Collection -- Results and Discussion -- Conclusions -- 12. Nice Guys DON’T Finish Last: Aggressive and Appeasement Gestures in Media Images of Politicians -- “Attention” and Political Success -- Non-verbal Cues of Dominance -- Evidence of Bias -- Conclusions -- 13. The Two Dimensions of Sociality -- Evidence for the Power and Status Dimensions -- Additional Sources of the Power and Status Model -- Power, Status and Emotions -- Power and Status Differentiation of Society -- Conclusion -- 14. Organisational Culture and the Agonic/Hedonic Bimodality -- The Four Cultures -- Individual Versus Organisation Orientation -- Hedonic and Agonic Behaviour Related to Organisation Culture -- Movement between Cultures -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- .