This study develops and tests a model of followers' attribution of charismatic qualities to their leader. The model stipulates that, leaders' visions being equal, followers' attributions of charisma to their leader will be determined by their leader's individual attributes and situational contexts. Specifically, this study theorizes that leaders' attributes, such as competence and sacrifice, be...

The present article reviews evidence for the malleability of automatic stereotypes and prejudice. In contrast to assumptions that such responses are fixed and inescapable , it is shown that automatic stereotypes and prejudice are influenced by, (a) self-and social motives, (b) specific strategies, (c) the perceiver's focus of attention , and (d) the configuration of stimulus cues. In addition, ...

Online interactions are often based on trust, the sharing of information and a degree of interdependence, as found with many offline relationships. The recent events at companies such as TalkTalk and Ashley Madison are the latest in a series of high profile cybersecurity incidents that demonstrate what happens when this trust relationship is breached. Despite the common media depiction, inciden...

*Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ES Maastricht, The Netherlands. [email protected] **Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands ***Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, USA ****Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology, Ghent Univ...

purpose: to ascertain the role of social support and positive affect in prediction of addiction relapse. materials and methods: the research method was a causal-comparison. population included all the clients seeking for medical advice in the centers for addiction treatment in saravan and iranshar. the sample includes 186 participants (83 participants had no relapse and 83 participants had rela...

I discuss the role of a standardized research protocol in social psychological research. Taking the standardized experimental setting of status characteristics theory as an exemplar, I discuss the theoretical implications of protocol variations. Subtle variations may have significant effects on theoretical processes, leading to unexpected empirical results, independent of theoretical variables ...

BOOKS. Z/O. This Pelican book is the latest in the excellent Pelican Psychology series and the Editor, Professor G. F. Mace, is to be congratulated on the selection of his authors. Dr. Brown has produced a survey of the vast amount of work written on this subject and manages to distil from it a clear and readable account of the important progress made and the trends which exist to further chang...