ssage from childhood to adulthood. There have been been so-called initiation rites that involve a certain amount of cruelty and brutality that have characterized human society for as long as weve known about human societies, says Caroline Keating, a psychology professor at Colgate University.
workplace. Just as older silverback gorillas are "typically the powerful actors in their social groups" in the wild, so it goes in the office, where a bald head may "signal who is in charge and potentially dangerous," says Caroline Keating, a Colgate University social psychologist who studies dominance.