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The same neural processes that support cooperative learning under prestige are hypothesized to participate in rivalry, polarization, and ideological hostility when their operating environments depart from those in which they evolved. This selective narrative review proposes a candidate integrative framework, the Hypothesized Neural Integration Model of Prestige and Pride, drawing on converging but largely indirect evidence from affective neuroscience, neuroeconomics, evolutionary psychology, and social neuroscience. The framework groups five categories of functionally pluripotent processing, each understood as engaging nodes within overlapping large-scale brain networks rather than as a localized regional mechanism: valuation-related processing implicating orbitofrontal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, reward-learning signals indexed in the ventral striatum, self-referential and identity-relevant processing engaging medial prefrontal cortex within the default-mode network, threat- and salience-related processing involving the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex within the salience network, and neuroendocrine output regulated through the hypothalamic\u2013pituitary\u2013adrenal axis and modulated by gonadal and neuropeptide systems. Consistent with Poldrack on reverse inference and with Marr on levels of analysis, the framework is presented at an integrative implementational level with candidate algorithmic mappings specified for each category, not as a computational specification of the constructs themselves, and treats high-level constructs such as prestige, status, and sacred value as emergent phenomena arising from dynamic network interactions, bodily states, cultural contexts, and historical contingencies rather than as properties localized to single regions. Because few neuroimaging paradigms isolate freely conferred deference from generic social rank, claims specific to prestige are deliberately restricted throughout, and the evidence base is presented as one concerning social rank unless a paradigm operationalizes prestige directly. Material ownership, sacred values, religious belief, and digital prestige metrics are treated as candidate domains of application, with explicit separation of direct neural evidence, behavioral evidence, and theoretical extrapolation. Symbolic escalation in consumer markets, sacred-value absolutism, and amplified social feedback on digital platforms are interpreted as candidate environmental amplifiers of ancestral status mechanisms rather than demonstrated causal pathways. Nine operational study designs are proposed to guide future preregistered tests, including one designed to establish whether a prestige-specific neural claim can be made at all. Intervention strategies are mapped to candidate processing and network targets using an explicit evidence-grading scheme, with structural and institutional measures weighted equally alongside cognitive and contemplative ones. 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