Hierarchy (in the Catholic imagination) signals status, power, privilege and the ability to control. Vulnerability, on the other hand, signals weakness, a flaw of some sort.

We found that teams with a clear rank order had lower-quality relationships than teams with a triangular hierarchy. In a triangle, where lower levels are larger, people can offer social support to ...

The hierarchy support currently provided in the IEEE 1801 standard, Unified Power Format (UPF) 2.0, is also covered. The article concludes by reviewing recent developments toward methodology ...