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Psychology | Social and Community Psychology | Applied Economics not elsewhere classified | Timber engineering | Industrial and Organisational Psychology | Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology | Social and personality psychology | Building | Social psychology | Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors) | Automation and technology in building and construction | Decision Making | Developmental Psychology and Ageing | Applied Economics | Sustainable design | Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations) |
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Behaviour and Health | Information Services not elsewhere classified | Health Related to Ageing | Expanding Knowledge in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences |
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Publications
Engaged followership and toxic science: Exploring the effect of prototypicality on willingness to follow harmful experimental instructions.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-11-2022
DOI: 10.1111/BJSO.12603
Abstract: Drawing on the 'engaged followership' reinterpretation of Milgram's work on obedience, four studies (three pre-registered) examine the extent to which people's willingness to follow an experimenter's instructions is dependent on the perceived prototypicality of the science they are supposedly advancing. In Studies 1, 2 and 3, participants took part in a study that was described as advancing either 'hard' (prototypical) science (i.e., neuroscience) or 'soft' (non-prototypical) science (i.e., social science) before completing an online analogue of Milgram's 'Obedience to Authority' paradigm. In Studies 1 and 2, participants in the neuroscience condition completed more trials than those in the social science condition. This effect was not replicated in Study 3, possibly because the timing of data collection (late 2020) coincided with an emphasis on social science's importance in controlling COVID-19. Results of a final cross-sectional study (Study 4) indicated that participants who perceived the study to be more prototypical of science found it more worthwhile, reported making a wider contribution by taking part, reported less dislike for the task, more happiness at having taken part, and more trust in the researchers, all of which indirectly predicted greater followership. Implications for the theoretical understanding of obedience to toxic instructions are discussed.
To what extent are conspiracy theorists concerned for self versus others? A COVID‐19 test case
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2021
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2737
Abstract: We examined whether people who are prone to believe COVID‐19 conspiracy theories are characterised by an especially strong concern for others or an especially strong concern for the self, and whether these orientations are associated with willingness to take a COVID‐19 vaccine. We surveyed 4,245 participants from eight nations three months later we re‐contacted 1,262 participants from three nations. Belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories was related to greater concerns about one's own safety, and lower concerns about the safety of close others. Furthermore, conspiracist ideation at Wave 1 predicted reluctance to take a COVID‐19 vaccine at Wave 2, mediated through relative concern for self versus others. In sum, people who are high in conspiracy beliefs have relatively higher concern for the self relative to others, with troubling implications for public health.
Unlocking the power of ‘us’: Longitudinal evidence that identity leadership predicts team functioning and athlete well-being
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-12-2022
Predictors of social identification in group therapy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2020
Is perceived athlete leadership quality related to team effectiveness? A comparison of three professional sports teams
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSAMS.2016.11.024
Abstract: Researchers have argued that leadership is one of the most important determinants of team effectiveness. The present study examined the extent to which the perceived quality of athlete leadership was related to the effectiveness of elite sports teams. Three professional football teams (N=135) participated in our study during the preparation phase for the Australian 2016 season. Players and coaching staff were asked to assess players' leadership quality in four leadership roles (as task, motivational, social, and external leader) via an online survey. The leadership quality in each of these roles was then calculated in a social network analysis by averaging the indegree centralities of the three best leaders in that particular role. Participants also rated their team's performance and its functioning on multiple indicators. As hypothesized, the team with the highest-quality athlete leadership on each of the four leadership roles excelled in all indicators of team effectiveness. More specifically, athletes in this team had a stronger shared sense of the team's purpose, they were more highly committed to realizing the team's goals, and they had a greater confidence in their team's abilities than athletes in the other teams. Moreover, this team demonstrated a higher task-involving and a lower ego-involving climate, and excelled on all measures of performance. High-quality athlete leadership is positively related to team effectiveness. Given the importance of high-quality athlete leadership, the study highlights the need for well-designed empirically-based leadership development programs.
The Importance of Social Groups for Retirement Adjustment: Evidence, Application, and Policy Implications of the Social Identity Model of Identity Change
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-10-2019
DOI: 10.1111/SIPR.12049
Promoting Open Science: A Holistic Approach to Changing Behaviour
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 2021
Abstract: In this article, we provide a toolbox of recommendations and resources for those aspiring to promote the uptake of open scientific practices. Open Science encompasses a range of behaviours that aim to improve the transparency of scientific research. This paper is ided into seven sections, each devoted to different groups or institutions in the research ecosystem: colleagues, students, departments and faculties, universities, academic libraries, journals, and funders. We describe the behavioural influences and incentives for each of these stakeholders as well as changes they can make to foster Open Science. Our primary goal, however, is to suggest actions that researchers can take to promote these behaviours, inspired by simple principles of behaviour change: make it easy, social, and attractive. In isolation, a small shift in one person’s behaviour may appear to make little difference, but when combined, many shifts can radically alter shared norms and culture. We offer this toolbox to assist in iduals and institutions in cultivating a more open research culture.
Group? What group? A computational model of the group needs a psychology of “us” (not “them”)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X21001266
Abstract: Groups are only real, and only serve as a basis for collective action, when their members perceive them to be real. For a computational model to have analytic fidelity and predictive validity it, therefore, needs to engage with the psychological reality of groups, their internal structure, and their structuring by (and of) the social context in which they function.
Leading us to be active: A two-wave test of relationships between identity leadership, group identification, and attendance.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 02-2020
DOI: 10.1037/SPY0000164
Social identification-building interventions to improve health: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-10-2021
DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2019.1669481
Abstract: There is growing evidence that social identity processes play an important role in a range of health outcomes. However, we know little about the nature and effectiveness of interventions that build social identification with the aim of promoting health. In the present research, we systematically review and meta-analyze interventions that build social identification to enhance health and wellbeing. A total of 27 intervention studies were identified (
The narcissistic appeal of leadership theories.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 02-2022
DOI: 10.1037/AMP0000738
Abstract: Leadership is one of the most researched topics in psychological and other social and behavioral sciences. It is routinely seen as vital to the success and vitality of various forms of collaborative activity not only in organizations but in society at large. This has provided the stimulus for a massive amount of theoretical and applied research and also supports a huge industry. But to whom does this body of work appeal? More specifically, does it appeal to people with a broad interest in advancing groups and society or to people who are primarily interested in promoting themselves? To answer this question, we explore the extent to which in iduals' narcissism predicts their endorsement of leadership theories. Results provide empirical evidence that the more narcissistic people are, the more they find leadership theories appealing and the more interest they have in learning about the ideas behind particular theories. The predictive power of narcissism also holds when accounting for other variables (including demographic, Big Five traits, and ideological and motivational variables). We conclude that psychological theorizing about leadership can be a double-edged sword in so far as the lionization of leaders(hip) appeals to, and legitimizes, the tastes of a narcissistic audience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
Up close and personal: Evidence that shared social identity is a basis for the ‘special’ relationship that binds followers to leaders
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2014
The Psychology of Leadership Destabilization: An Analysis of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Debates
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-10-2020
DOI: 10.1111/POPS.12698
Leadership as social identity management: Introducing the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) to assess and validate a four-dimensional model
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Fat Cats and Thin Followers: Excessive CEO Pay May Reduce Ability to Lead
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Harnessing the power of ‘us’: A randomized wait-list controlled trial of the 5R shared leadership development program (5RS) in basketball teams
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2021
How Multiple Social Identities Are Related to Creativity
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-12-2016
Abstract: The present research examined whether possessing multiple social identities (i.e., groups relevant to one’s sense of self) is associated with creativity. In Study 1, the more identities in iduals reported having, the more names they generated for a new commercial product (i.e., greater idea fluency). In Study 2, multiple identities were associated with greater fluency and originality (mediated by cognitive flexibility, but not by persistence). Study 3 validated these findings using a highly powered s le. We again found that multiple identities increase fluency and originality, and that flexibility (but not persistence) mediated the effect on originality. Study 3 also ruled out several alternative explanations (self-affirmation, novelty seeking, and generalized persistence). Across all studies, the findings were robust to controlling for personality, and there was no evidence of a curvilinear relationship between multiple identities and creativity. These results suggest that possessing multiple social identities is associated with enhanced creativity via cognitive flexibility.
Advancing the social identity approach to health and well-being: Progressing the social cure research agenda
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-10-2017
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2333
Innovations in social psychology: Social identity mapping online
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 02-2020
DOI: 10.1037/PSPA0000174
Abstract: Social identities play an important role in many aspects of life, not least in those pertaining to health and well-being. Decades of research shows that these relationships are driven by a range of social identity processes, including identification with groups, social support received from groups, and multiple group memberships. However, to date, researchers have not had access to methods that simultaneously capture these social identity processes. To fill this void, this article introduces an online Social Identity Mapping (oSIM) tool designed to assess the multidimensional and connected nature of social identities. Four studies (total
Identity leadership going global: Validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory across 20 countries
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-05-2018
DOI: 10.1111/JOOP.12223
Social group memberships in retirement are associated with reduced risk of premature death: Evidence from a longitudinal cohort study
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 2016
Registered Replication Report: Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-02-2018
Abstract: Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998) reported that participants primed with a category associated with intelligence (“professor”) subsequently performed 13% better on a trivia test than participants primed with a category associated with a lack of intelligence (“soccer hooligans”). In two unpublished replications of this study designed to verify the appropriate testing procedures, Dijksterhuis, van Knippenberg, and Holland observed a smaller difference between conditions (2%–3%) as well as a gender difference: Men showed the effect (9.3% and 7.6%), but women did not (0.3% and −0.3%). The procedure used in those replications served as the basis for this multilab Registered Replication Report. A total of 40 laboratories collected data for this project, and 23 of these laboratories met all inclusion criteria. Here we report the meta-analytic results for those 23 direct replications (total N = 4,493), which tested whether performance on a 30-item general-knowledge trivia task differed between these two priming conditions (results of supplementary analyses of the data from all 40 labs, N = 6,454, are also reported). We observed no overall difference in trivia performance between participants primed with the “professor” category and those primed with the “hooligan” category (0.14%) and no moderation by gender.
Power through ‘Us’: Leaders’ Use of We-Referencing Language Predicts Election Victory
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 23-10-2013
True to what We stand for: Championing collective interests as a path to authentic leadership
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Genius begins at home: Shared social identity enhances the recognition of creative performance
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-02-2017
DOI: 10.1111/BJOP.12242
Abstract: The present research examines the extent to which the recognition of creative performance is structured by social group membership. It does this by analysing the award of merit prizes for Best Actor and Actress in a Leading Role for the international award of US-based Oscars and British-based BAFTAs since BAFTA's inception of this category in 1968. For both awards, the exclusive assessment criterion is the quality of artists' performance in the international arena. Results show that US artists won a greater proportion of Oscars than BAFTAs (odds ratio: 2.10), whereas British artists won a greater proportion of BAFTAs than Oscars (OR: 2.26). Furthermore, results support the hypothesis that these patterns are more pronounced as the diagnostic value of a quality indicator increases - that is, in the conferring of actual awards rather than nominations. Specifically, US artists won a greater proportion of Oscar awards than nominations (OR: 1.77), while British artists won a greater proportion of BAFTA awards than nominations (OR: 1.62). Additional analyses show that the performances of in-group actors in movies portraying in-group culture (US culture in the case of Oscars, British culture in the case of BAFTAs) are more likely to be recognized than the performances of in-group actors in movies portraying the culture of other (out-)groups. These are the first data to provide clear evidence from the field that the recognition of exceptional creative performance is enhanced by shared social identity between perceivers and performers.
Making 'us' better: High-quality athlete leadership relates to health and burnout in professional Australian football teams.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-10-2020
DOI: 10.1080/17461391.2019.1680736
Abstract: Overtraining, exhaustion, and burnout are widely recognized problems amongst elite athletes. The present research addresses this issue by exploring the extent to which high-quality athlete leadership is associated with elite athletes' health and burnout. Participants (120 male athletes from three top- ision Australian football teams) were asked to rate the quality of each of their teammates in four different leadership roles (i.e. as task and motivational leaders on the field and as social and external leaders off the field), and also to indicate their identification with their team as well as their self-reported health and burnout. Findings indicated that (a)
Singing it for “us”: Team passion displayed during national anthems is associated with subsequent success
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-02-2018
DOI: 10.1080/17461391.2018.1431311
Abstract: The present research examined the link between passion displayed by team members during the singing of national anthems at UEFA Euro 2016 and team performance in the tournaments' 51 games. Drawing on social identity theorising, we hypothesised a positive relationship between passion and performance. Consistent with this hypothesis, results showed that teams that sang national anthems with greater passion went on to concede fewer goals. Moreover, results provided evidence that the impact of passion on the likelihood of winning a game depended on the stage of the competition: in the knockout stage (but not the group stage) greater passion was associated with a greater likelihood of victory. Extending recent reviews that highlight the importance of social identity processes in sporting contexts, these results suggest that team members' identity-based expression of passion for the collective can be an important predictor of subsequent performance.
Perceptions of the Targets and Sources of COVID-19 Threat are Structured by Group Memberships and Responses are Influenced by Identification with Humankind
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.5334/PB.1043
Shared social identity content is the basis for leaders’ mobilization of followers
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-04-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41562-022-01319-5
Abstract: The study of moral judgements often centres on moral dilemmas in which options consistent with deontological perspectives (that is, emphasizing rules, in idual rights and duties) are in conflict with options consistent with utilitarian judgements (that is, following the greater good based on consequences). Greene et al. (2009) showed that psychological and situational factors (for ex le, the intent of the agent or the presence of physical contact between the agent and the victim) can play an important role in moral dilemma judgements (for ex le, the trolley problem). Our knowledge is limited concerning both the universality of these effects outside the United States and the impact of culture on the situational and psychological factors affecting moral judgements. Thus, we empirically tested the universality of the effects of intent and personal force on moral dilemma judgements by replicating the experiments of Greene et al. in 45 countries from all inhabited continents. We found that personal force and its interaction with intention exert influence on moral judgements in the US and Western cultural clusters, replicating and expanding the original findings. Moreover, the personal force effect was present in all cultural clusters, suggesting it is culturally universal. The evidence for the cultural universality of the interaction effect was inconclusive in the Eastern and Southern cultural clusters (depending on exclusion criteria). We found no strong association between collectivism/in idualism and moral dilemma judgements.
Believing in “us”: Exploring leaders’ capacity to enhance team confidence and performance by building a sense of shared social identity.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 03-2015
DOI: 10.1037/XAP0000033
Abstract: The present study examined the impact of athlete leaders' perceived confidence on their teammates' confidence and performance. Male basketball players (N = 102) participated in groups of 4. To manipulate leaders' team confidence, the appointed athlete leader of each newly formed basketball team (a confederate) expressed either high or low team confidence. The results revealed an effect of team confidence contagion such that team members had greater team confidence when the leader expressed high (rather than low) confidence in the team's success. Second, the present study sought to explain the mechanisms through which this contagion occurs. In line with the social identity approach to leadership, structural equation modeling demonstrated that this effect was partially mediated by team members' increased team identification. Third, findings indicated that when leaders expressed high team confidence, team members' performance increased during the test, but when leaders expressed low confidence, team members' performance decreased. Athlete leaders thus have the capacity to shape team members' confidence--and hence their performance--in both positive and negative ways. In particular, by showing that they believe in "our team," leaders are able not only to make "us" a psychological reality, but also to transform "us" into an effective operational unit.
The more you have, the more you want? Higher social class predicts a greater desire for wealth and status
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-09-2019
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2620
Our Followers Are Lions, Theirs Are Sheep: How Social Identity Shapes Theories About Followership and Social Influence
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-01-2017
DOI: 10.1111/POPS.12387
One of us … and us … and us: Evidence that leaders’ multiple identity prototypicality (LMIP) is related to their perceived effectiveness
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2018
Cell lineage specification during development of the anterior lateral plate mesoderm and forelimb field
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 14-01-2022
DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.13.475748
Abstract: The lateral plate mesoderm (LPM) is a transient embryonic tissue that gives rise to a erse range of mature cell types, including the cardiovascular system, the urogenital system, endoskeleton of the limbs, and mesenchyme of the gut. While the genetic processes that drive development of these tissues are well defined, the early cell fate choices underlying LPM development and specification are poorly understood. In this study, we utilize single-cell transcriptomics to define cell lineage specification during development of the anterior LPM and the forelimb field in the chicken embryo. We identify the molecular pathways directing differentiation of the aLPM towards a somatic or splanchnic cell fate, and subsequent emergence of the forelimb mesenchyme. We establish the first transcriptional atlas of progenitor, transitional and mature cell types throughout the early forelimb field and uncover the global signalling pathways which are active during LPM differentiation and forelimb initiation. Specification of the somatic and splanchnic LPM from undifferentiated mesoderm utilizes distinct signalling pathways and involves shared repression of early mesodermal markers, followed by activation of lineage-specific gene modules. We identify rapid activation of the transcription factor TWIST1 in the somatic LPM preceding activation of known limb initiation genes, such as TBX 5, which plays a likely role in epithelial-to-mesenchyme transition of the limb bud mesenchyme. Furthermore, development of the somatic LPM and limb is dependent on ectodermal BMP signalling, where BMP antagonism reduces expression of key somatic LPM and limb genes to inhibit formation of the limb bud mesenchyme. Together, these findings provide new insights into molecular mechanisms that drive fate cell choices during specification of the aLPM and forelimb initiation.
Leaders’ creation of shared identity impacts group members’ effort and performance: Evidence from an exercise task
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 11-07-2019
Putting the ‘we’ into workout: The association of identity leadership with exercise class attendance and effort, and the mediating role of group identification and comfort
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2019
How national leaders keep ‘us’ safe: A longitudinal, four-nation study exploring the role of identity leadership as a predictor of adherence to COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 05-2022
DOI: 10.1136/BMJOPEN-2021-054980
Abstract: To investigate whether citizens’ adherence to health-protective non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic is predicted by identity leadership, wherein leaders are perceived to create a sense of shared national identity. Observational two-wave study. Hypotheses testing was conducted with structural equation modelling. Data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, Germany, Israel and the USA in April/May 2020 and four weeks later. Adults in China (n=548, 66.6% women), Germany (n=182, 78% women), Israel (n=198, 51.0% women) and the USA (n=108, 58.3% women). Identity leadership (assessed by the four-item Identity Leadership Inventory Short-Form) at Time 1, perceived shared national identification (PSNI assessed with four items) and adherence to health-protective NPIs (assessed with 10 items that describe different health-protective interventions for ex le, wearing face masks) at Time 2. Identity leadership was positively associated with PSNI (95% CI 0.11 to 0.30, p .001) in all countries. This, in turn, was related to more adherence to health-protective NPIs in all countries (95% CI 0.03 to 0.36, 0.001≤ p ≤0.017) except Israel (95% CI −0.03 to 0.27, p=0.119). In Germany, the more people saw Chancellor Merkel as engaging in identity leadership, the more they adhered to health-protective NPIs (95% CI 0.04 to 0.18, p=0.002). In the USA, in contrast, the more people perceived President Trump as engaging in identity leadership, the less they adhered to health-protective NPIs (95% CI −0.17 to −0.04, p=0.002). National leaders can make a difference by promoting a sense of shared identity among their citizens because people are more inclined to follow health-protective NPIs to the extent that they feel part of a united ‘us’. However, the content of identity leadership (perceptions of what it means to be a nation’s citizen) is essential, because this can also encourage people to disregard such recommendations.
Leading together towards a stronger ‘us’: An experimental test of the effectiveness of the 5R Shared Leadership Program (5RS) in basketball teams
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-0100
Leader performance and prototypicality: Their inter-relationship and impact on leaders' identity entrepreneurship
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-10-2013
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.1985
Leaders promote attendance in sport and exercise sessions by fostering social identity
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-06-2018
DOI: 10.1111/SMS.13217
Abstract: Sport and exercise participation exert a positive effect on numerous aspects of in iduals' health. Although sport and exercise leaders have generally been observed to play a key role in shaping group members' behavior, our understanding of their impact on group members' attendance in sport and exercise sessions is limited. To address this, and building on promising findings in other domains, we examined the associations between perceptions of sport and exercise leaders' engagement in social identity leadership, group identification, and attendance. A s le of 583 participants from sports teams (n = 307) and exercise groups (n = 276) completed questionnaires measuring identity leadership, group identification, and attendance. Analyses demonstrated that perceptions of leader engagement in social identity leadership were positively associated with members' group identification, and that this in turn was positively associated with their attendance in either a sports group or an exercise group. Moreover, there was a significant indirect effect for perceptions of leader engagement in identity leadership on group members' attendance through their greater identification with these groups. Findings highlight the importance of considering the impact sport and exercise leaders have on group members' attendance and suggest that leaders who represent, advance, create, and embed a shared sense of identity (ie, a shared sense of "us") among attendees can promote participation in sport and exercise.
International differences in employee silence motives: Scale validation, prevalence, and relationships with culture characteristics across 33 countries
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-05-2021
DOI: 10.1002/JOB.2512
Abstract: Employee silence, the withholding of work‐related ideas, questions, or concerns from someone who could effect change, has been proposed to h er in idual and collective learning as well as the detection of errors and unethical behaviors in many areas of the world. To facilitate cross‐cultural research, we validated an instrument measuring four employee silence motives (i.e., silence based on fear, resignation, prosocial, and selfish motives) in 21 languages. Across 33 countries ( N = 8,222) representing erse cultural clusters, the instrument shows good psychometric properties (i.e., internal reliabilities, factor structure, and measurement invariance). Results further revealed similarities and differences in the prevalence of silence motives between countries, but did not necessarily support cultural stereotypes. To explore the role of culture for silence, we examined relationships of silence motives with the societal practices cultural dimensions from the GLOBE Program. We found relationships between silence motives and power distance, institutional collectivism, and uncertainty avoidance. Overall, the findings suggest that relationships between silence and cultural dimensions are more complex than commonly assumed. We discuss the explanatory power of nations as (cultural) units of analysis, our social scientific approach, the predictive value of cultural dimensions, and opportunities to extend silence research geographically, methodologically, and conceptually.
Outlier SNPs detect weak regional structure against a background of genetic homogeneity in the Eastern Rock Lobster, Sagmariasus verreauxi
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-11-2018
We will be champions: Leaders' confidence in ‘us’ inspires team members' team confidence and performance
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-12-2015
DOI: 10.1111/SMS.12603
Abstract: The present research examines the impact of leaders' confidence in their team on the team confidence and performance of their teammates. In an experiment involving newly assembled soccer teams, we manipulated the team confidence expressed by the team leader (high vs neutral vs low) and assessed team members' responses and performance as they unfolded during a competition (i.e., in a first baseline session and a second test session). Our findings pointed to team confidence contagion such that when the leader had expressed high (rather than neutral or low) team confidence, team members perceived their team to be more efficacious and were more confident in the team's ability to win. Moreover, leaders' team confidence affected in idual and team performance such that teams led by a highly confident leader performed better than those led by a less confident leader. Finally, the results supported a hypothesized mediational model in showing that the effect of leaders' confidence on team members' team confidence and performance was mediated by the leader's perceived identity leadership and members' team identification. In conclusion, the findings of this experiment suggest that leaders' team confidence can enhance members' team confidence and performance by fostering members' identification with the team.
All for us and us for all: Introducing the 5R Shared Leadership Program
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
Identity economics meets identity leadership: Exploring the consequences of elevated CEO pay
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
Standing out from the crowd: Identifying the traits and behaviors that characterize high-quality athlete leaders.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-01-2020
DOI: 10.1111/SMS.13620
Abstract: An emerging body of evidence indicates that, in addition to the coach, athlete leaders within a team are vital for a sports team's success. Sports teams are therefore keen to know which attributes are distinctly characteristic of high-quality leaders on and off the field. The present study aims to shed more light on this question. A wide variety of traits and leadership behaviors was assessed in a s le of 776 athletes, stratified across gender, competitive level, and four sports. The leadership quality of each of the athletes (ie, as task, motivational, social, and external leader) was determined on the basis of the perceptions of teammates using social network analysis. Findings revealed that leadership behaviors outweighed personality traits in distinguishing high-quality leaders from others on and off the field. Providing identity leadership that creates, embodies, advances, and embeds a collective sense of "us" in their teams was found to be a particularly important leadership behavior that characterized high-quality leaders both on and off the field. The fact that leadership behaviors were important predictors of high-quality athlete leadership (and more important predictors than traits) suggests that leaders are not just born, but can also be made. Our findings therefore highlight the clear need for leadership development programs to target the behaviors that we identified as important predictors of leadership.
Social cure, what social cure? The propensity to underestimate the importance of social factors for health
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2017.12.020
Abstract: Recent meta-analytic research indicates that social support and social integration are highly protective against mortality, and that their importance is comparable to, or exceeds, that of many established behavioural risks such as smoking, high alcohol consumption, lack of exercise, and obesity that are the traditional focus of medical research (Holt-Lunstad et al., 2010). The present study examines perceptions of the contribution of these various factors to life expectancy within the community at large. American and British community respondents (N = 502) completed an on-line survey assessing the perceived importance of social and behavioural risk factors for mortality. As hypothesized, while respondents' perceptions of the importance of established behavioural risks was positively and highly correlated with their actual importance, social factors were seen to be far less important for health than they actually are. As a result, overall, there was a small but significant negative correlation between the perceived benefits and the actual benefits of different social and behavioural factors. Men, younger participants, and participants with a lower level of education were more likely to underestimate the importance of social factors for health. There was also evidence that underestimation was predicted by a cluster of ideological factors, the most significant of which was respondents' respect for prevailing convention and authorities as captured by Right-Wing Authoritarianism. Findings suggest that while people generally underestimate the importance of social factors for health this also varies as a function of demographic and ideological factors. They point to a range of challenges confronting those who seek to promote greater awareness of the importance of social factors for health.
Multiple Social Identities Enhance Health Post-Retirement Because They Are a Basis for Giving Social Support
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 17-10-2016
Tyranny and Leadership
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Attributions of leaders’ charisma increase after their death: The mediating role of identity leadership and identity fusion
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-10-2018
The unfolding impact of leader identity entrepreneurship on burnout, work engagement, and turnover intentions.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.1037/OCP0000090
Abstract: The present research expands upon previous theory and empirical work concerning the leadership-health link by examining the lagged effects of leader identity entrepreneurship (i.e., leaders' creation of a sense of "we" and "us" among team members) on team members' burnout, work engagement and turnover intentions. We report results from a 2-wave field study with employees from a large solar panel producing organization in China conducted over a 10-month period. Findings indicate that perceived leader identity entrepreneurship predicted greater subsequent work engagement among team members, as well as lower subsequent burnout and turnover intentions. Moreover, effects on reduced turnover intentions were mediated by reduced burnout and increased work engagement. These findings are the first to examine how leader identity entrepreneurship impacts subsequent employee health and turnover intentions and suggest that leaders help to promote health and well-being in the workplace by creating and developing a sense of shared identity among those they lead. (PsycINFO Database Record
Dying for charisma: Leaders' inspirational appeal increases post-mortem
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
Friendships that money can buy: financial security protects health in retirement by enabling social connectedness
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-11-2019
DOI: 10.1186/S12877-019-1281-1
Abstract: Research on the health and wellbeing of retirees has tended to focus on financial security and financial planning. However, we suggest that one reason why financial security is important for retirees is that it enables social connectedness, which is critical for healthy ageing. This paper tests this hypothesis cross-sectionally ( N = 3109) and longitudinally ( N = 404) using a population-weighted mixed effects mediation model in two nationally representative s les of Australian retirees. Analyses provide robust support for our model. Subjective financial security predicted retiree health cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Social connectedness also consistently predicted mental health and physical health, on average four times more strongly than financial security. Furthermore, social connectedness partially accounted for the protective effect of subjective financial security. We discuss the implications of these findings for public health, with a particular emphasis on how social connectedness can be better supported for people transitioning to retirement.
Cracks before the crisis: Polarization prior to COVID‐19 predicts increased collective angst and economic pessimism
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2022
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2845
Abstract: We examine how polarization within societies is associated with reduced confidence in national responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) crisis. We surveyed 4,731 participants across nine countries at Wave 1 (France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States), and then, at Wave 2 (3 months later), we recontacted 840 participants from two countries (the United Kingdom and the United States). We found that perceived polarization in the years preceding COVID‐19 predicted an enhanced perception that a country's COVID response was anomic (i.e., disorganized, chaotic), which in turn predicted greater collective angst and economic pessimism. Moreover, polarization measured at Wave 1 continued to predict perceptions that the COVID‐19 response was anomic at Wave 2, and, in turn, enhanced collective angst, pessimism, and the perception that dramatic political change was required to recover from COVID‐19. Our findings highlight how polarization may be associated with reduced confidence in leaders and governments at times of crisis, and how this predicts future‐focused anxiety and pessimism.
Why a nudge is not enough: A social identity critique of governance by stealth
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-11-2014
A picture is worth a thousand words: Social identity mapping as a way of visualizing and assessing social group connections
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 18-07-2023
The fish can rot from the heart, not just the head: Exploring the detrimental impact of transgressions by leaders at multiple levels of an organization
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-06-2022
DOI: 10.1111/BJSO.12551
Abstract: In this registered report, we examined the effect of transgressions committed by leaders working at different group levels within an organization on employee outcomes. Based on social identity theorizing, we argued that organizational leader transgressions would affect organizational members’ experiences only at the organizational level, but that workgroup leader transgressions would impact organizational members’ experiences at both workgroup and organizational levels. To test these ideas, we developed a 2 (leader group affiliation: workgroup vs. organizational) × 2 (leader behaviour: normative vs. transgressive) between‐subjects experimental paradigm. As hypothesized, both workgroup and organizational leader transgressions resulted in decreased organizational identification and perceived organizational leader effectiveness. Contrary to our prediction, transgressions of both workgroup and organizational leaders were similarly detrimental to workers’ workgroup identification. However, as predicted, a transgressive workgroup leader had a greater negative impact on perceived workgroup leader effectiveness than a transgressive organizational leader. When outliers were excluded, a workgroup leader’s transgression was found to be more detrimental to work performance than an organizational leader’s transgression. Overall, this study demonstrates that the transgressions of lower‐level workgroup leaders can be as detrimental – and in some cases more detrimental – to workers than the transgressions of higher‐level organizational leaders.
Social Identity Mapping: A procedure for visual representation and assessment of subjective multiple group memberships
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-08-2016
DOI: 10.1111/BJSO.12155
Abstract: In this research, we introduce Social Identity Mapping (SIM) as a method for visually representing and assessing a person's subjective network of group memberships. To provide evidence of its utility, we report validating data from three studies (two longitudinal), involving student, community, and clinical s les, together comprising over 400 participants. Results indicate that SIM is easy to use, internally consistent, with good convergent and discriminant validity. Each study also illustrates the ways that SIM can be used to address a range of novel research questions. Study 1 shows that multiple positive group memberships are a particularly powerful predictor of well-being. Study 2 shows that social support is primarily given and received within social groups and that only in-group support is beneficial for well-being. Study 3 shows that improved mental health following a social group intervention is attributable to an increase in group compatibility. In this way, the studies demonstrate the capacity for SIM to make a contribution both to the development of social-psychological theory and to its practical application.
The Neuroscience of Inspirational Leadership: The Importance of Collective-Oriented Language and Shared Group Membership
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-01-2017
Abstract: Effective leaders are believed to inspire followers by providing inclusive visions of the future that followers can identify with. In the present study, we examined the neural mechanisms underlying this process, testing key hypotheses derived from transformational and social identity approaches to leadership. While undergoing functional MRI, supporters from the two major Australian political parties (Liberal vs. Labor) were presented with inspirational collective-oriented and noninspirational personal-oriented statements made by in-group and out-group leaders. Imaging data revealed that inspirational (rather than noninspirational) statements from in-group leaders were associated with increased activation in the bilateral rostral inferior parietal lobule, pars opercularis, and posterior midcingulate cortex: brain areas that are typically implicated in controlling semantic information processing. In contrast, for out-group leaders, greater activation in these areas was associated with noninspirational statements. In addition, noninspirational statements by in-group (but not out-group) leaders resulted in increased activation in the medial prefrontal cortex, an area typically associated with reasoning about a person’s mental state. These results show that followers processed identical statements qualitatively differently as a function of leaders’ group membership, thus demonstrating that shared identity acts as an lifier for inspirational leadership communication.
Shared Adversity Increases Team Creativity Through Fostering Supportive Interaction
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 23-11-2018
A social identity analysis of responses to economic inequality
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.COPSYC.2017.05.011
Abstract: Even though there is growing awareness that economic inequality is harmful for people's health, the way that such inequality affects social behavior and political attitudes remains poorly understood. Moving beyond a focus on the health and well-being costs of income inequality, we review research that examines how economic inequality shapes dynamics between groups within societies, addressing the questions why, when, and for whom inequality affects social behavior and political attitudes. On the basis of classic social identity theorizing, we develop five hypotheses that focus on the way inequality shapes the fit of wealth categorizations (H1), intergroup relations (H2), and stereotypes about wealth groups (H3). We also theorize how the effects of inequality are moderated by socio-structural conditions (H4) and socio-economic status (H5). Together, these hypotheses provide a theoretically informed account of the way in which inequality undermines the social fabric of society and negatively affects citizen's social and political behavior.
Leading from the Centre: A Comprehensive Examination of the Relationship between Central Playing Positions and Leadership in Sport
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 15-04-2024
Social identity makes group-based social connection possible: Implications for loneliness and mental health
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.COPSYC.2021.07.013
Abstract: This review argues that a distinctly positive form of social connection is made possible by the social identities that people derive from psychologically meaningful group memberships. These connections have important implications for mental health by virtue of their distinct capacity to furnish people with a sense of collective meaning, purpose, support, and efficacy. This analysis suggests that loneliness and its toxic effects arise in part from the challenges of achieving this distinct form of social connection in contemporary society. However, it also suggests that a good way to tackle loneliness and support mental health is by building, restoring, and sustaining social identities through meaningful group-based connections. We conclude by reflecting on the success of interventions that do precisely this - most notably Groups 4 Health.
When the final whistle blows: Social identity pathways support mental health and life satisfaction after retirement from competitive sport
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
A Social Identity Approach to Understanding and Promoting Physical Activity
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-03-2017
Understanding responses to an organizational takeover: Introducing the social identity model of organizational change.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 11-2022
DOI: 10.1037/PSPI0000386
Abstract: This paper presents a Social Identity Model of Organizational Change (SIMOC) and tests this in the context of employees' responses to a corporate takeover. This model suggests that employees will identify with the newly emerging organization and adjust to organizational change more successfully the more they are able to maintain their pre-existing social identity (an identity maintenance pathway) or to change understanding of their social identity in ways that are perceived as constituting identity gain (an identity gain pathway). We examine this model in the context of an acquisition in the pharmaceutical industry where 225 employees were surveyed before the implementation of the organizational change and then again 18 months later. In line with SIMOC, pre-change identification predicted post-change identification and a variety of beneficial adjustment outcomes for employees (including job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behavior, lower depression, satisfaction with life, and post-traumatic growth) to the extent that either (a) they experienced a sense of identity continuity or (b) their supervisors engaged in identity leadership that helped to build a sense that they were gaining a new positive identity. Results showed a negative impact of pre-change organizational identification on post-change identification and various adjustment outcomes if both pathways were inaccessible, thereby contributing to employees' experience of social identity loss. Discussion focuses on the ways in which organizations and their leaders can better manage organizational change and associated identity transition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
Advancing the social identity theory of leadership: A meta-analytic review of leader group prototypicality
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-10-2020
Abstract: This research advances a social identity approach to leadership through a meta-analysis examining four novel hypotheses that clarify the nature and impact of leader group prototypicality (the extent to which a leader is perceived to embody shared social identity). A random-effects meta-analysis ( k = 128, N = 32,834) reveals a moderate-to-large effect of prototypicality that holds across evaluative and behavioral outcomes. The effect is stronger (a) when prototypicality is conceptualized as the ideal-type rather than the average group member, (b) for stronger prototypes (indexed by group longevity), and (c) for group members in formal rather than nonformal leadership roles. The effect is not contingent on group prototypicality entailing differentiation from other (out)groups. Additionally, results provide meta-analytic evidence of widely examined key factors: follower group identification (which enhances the relationship) and leader group-serving behavior (which attenuates the relationship). Building on these findings, we outline the implications for the next wave of theoretical and empirical work.
Identity centrality moderates the relationship between acceptance of group‐based stressors and well‐being
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-04-2018
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2367
Sentient-based Access Control model: A mitigation technique for Advanced Persistent Threats in Smartphones
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2020
Publisher Correction: Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-06-2022
Synthetic cannabinoid “Black Mamba” infidelity in patients presenting for emergency stabilization in Colorado: a P SCAN Cohort
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2017
‘Of the group’ and ‘for the group’: How followership is shaped by leaders' prototypicality and group identification
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2015
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2088
Multiple social groups support adjustment to retirement across cultures
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2018.05.049
Abstract: Research has demonstrated the positive effects that social identification with multiple groups has on people's health and well-being, in part during the transition from work to retirement. However, these effects have not been examined outside Western retirement contexts. This study addresses this gap. This investigation aims to examine the contribution that group membership and identification with multiple social groups makes to supporting retirees' physical health and well-being across cultures. Responses from a representative s le of 10,513 retired in iduals from 51 countries drawn from the World Values Survey were used in this analysis. This research focused on the number of group memberships, identification with multiple groups, subjective health, and well-being that respondents reported. Analysis showed that belonging to multiple groups positively predicted retirees' health and well-being in both Western and non-Western cultural contexts. In line with cross-cultural research, there was evidence that country-level collectivism moderated the strength of this association, with the effect being weaker in collectivistic (vs. in idualistic) countries. Findings confirm the utility of using the social identity approach to understand people's adjustment to retirement across cultures.
A Meta-Analytic Review of Social Identification and Health in Organizational Contexts
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-07-2016
Abstract: We provide a meta-analytical review examining two decades of work on the relationship between in iduals’ social identifications and health in organizations (102 effect sizes, k = 58, N = 19,799). Results reveal a mean-weighted positive association between organizational identification and health ( r = .21, T = .14). Analysis identified a positive relationship for both workgroup ( r = .21) and organizational identification ( r = .21), and in studies using longitudinal/experimental ( r = .13) and cross-sectional designs ( r = .22). The relationship is stronger (a) for indicators of the presence of well-being ( r = .27) than absence of stress ( r = .18), (b) for psychological ( r = .23) than physical health ( r = .16), (c) to the extent that identification is shared among group members, and (d) as the proportion of female participants in a s le decreases. Overall, results indicate that social identifications in organizations are positively associated with health but that there is also substantial variation in effect size strength. We discuss implications for theory and practice and outline a roadmap for future research.
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