2310: Emerging Perspectives and New Directions of Charismatic Leadership (18601)

Organizer(s)

• MH

  Mary Hausfeld

  U. of Zurich, Switzerland

Discussant(s)

• MH

  Mary Hausfeld

  U. of Zurich, Switzerland

Organizer(s)

• FB

  Florence Bernays

  U. of Zurich

Presenter(s)

• RW

  Rafael Wilms

  VU Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Netherlands

Participant(s)

• NB

  Nicolas Bastardoz

  KU Leuven, Belgium

Presenter(s)

• LE

  Lara Engelbert

  Vrije U. Amsterdam
• FB

  Florence Bernays

  U. of Zurich
• TK

  Tiffany Kreutschy

  Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), U. of Lausanne, Switzerland
• MH

  Mary Hausfeld

  U. of Zurich, Switzerland

Discussant(s)

• FB

  Florence Bernays

  U. of Zurich

What’s next for charismatic leadership research and leadership science more broadly? To address this question, we present five papers at the cutting edge of research on charismatic signaling. Specifically, Wilms et al. and Hausfeld et al. explore the extent to which characteristics of followers (e.g. personal values), the situation (e.g. gendered context), and the leader (e.g. leader gender) determine the efficacy of a charismatic message. Engelbert et al. and Bernays & Aydogan work to uncover the cognitive and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying charisma, identifying the extent to which charismatic signaling suppresses task-unrelated thoughts or distorts followers’ memory. Finally, Kreutschy and Rohner investigate charisma in the political sphere, identifying whether charismatic signaling can predict state-level outcomes by examining the exact topics political leaders address in their speeches. Making use of sophisticated design and analytic techniques such as regression discontinuity design, meta-analysis, biological measures, and behavioral outcomes, the papers included in this symposium represent a selection of research consistent with calls to limit our reliance on survey research (Fischer et al., 2023), to integrate more actual behavior (Banks et al., 2023), and to offer causal explanations (Wulff et al., 2023; Antonakis et al., 2010).

Presentations:

• 15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2310: Are We on the Same Page? Leader-Follower Value Congruence as a Boundary Condition of Charisma (18601)
  

  Author: Rafael Wilms – VU Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics

  Author: Nicolas Bastardoz – KU Leuven

  Author: Clara Seif El Dahan – South Westphalia U. of Applied Sciences

  Author: Philippe Jacquart – EMLYON Business School
• 15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2310: Don’t Wander Off: Leader Charisma Prevents Task-Unrelated Thoughts (18601)
  

  Author: Lara Engelbert – Vrije U. Amsterdam

  Author: Jan Theeuwes – Vrije U. of Amsterdam

  Author: Michiel Van Elk – Leiden U., The Netherlands

  Author: Mark Van Vugt – Vrije U. Amsterdam
• 15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2310: Trick or Treat, Bright or Dark? Charismatic Signaling and the Formation of False Memories (18601)
  

  Author: Florence Bernays – U. of Zurich

  Author: Gökhan Aydogan – U. of Zurich
• 15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2310: Governor Charisma Boosts State-Level Outcomes, but What do Governors Say? A Topic Modeling Analysis (18601)
  

  Author: Tiffany Kreutschy – Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), U. of Lausanne

  Author: Dominic Rohner – Ecole Des HEC-U. of Lausanne
• 15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2310: Do Women Receive Credit for Charisma? A Prospective Meta-Analysis of Gender and the Charisma Signal (18601)
  

  Author: Mary Hausfeld – U. of Zurich

  Author: George Banks – UNC Charlotte

  Author: Jill Yavorsky – U. of North Carolina at Charlotte

  Author: Christopher Petsko – Kenan-Flagler Business School, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill