Selfish or servant leadership? Evolutionary predictions on leadership personalities in coordination games
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Gillet, Cartwright, and van Vugt (2011) demonstrated that pro-social individuals labeled 'servants' emerge as leaders more significantly than pro-self-individuals in their money-based game.
“Gillet, Cartwright, and van Vugt (2011) demonstrated that pro-social individuals (whom they labeled 'servants') emerge as leaders more significantly than pro-self-individuals in their money-based game.”
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- Authors
- Gillet, J., Cartwright, E., & Vugt, M. V.
- Affiliations
- Osnabrück University (DE)
- University of Kent (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Gillet, Joris
- Venue
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-08
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 231-236
- ISSN
- 0191-8869 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2024107811
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 6.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Individual Differences (publishedVersion)
- Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (submittedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/E010512/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Keywords
- leadership, leader personality, coordination games, evolutionary hypothesis, followers, financial incentives, social good, group decision making
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