This research seeks to understand how a leader's or an aspiring leader's expressive (e.g., a name indicating race) and indicative (e.g., an elite university's graduation photo on the wall) status cues influence the effects of the leader's gender and race on leader selection and leadership impressions. We conducted two studies with MTurk participants who were employed. Our findings suggest additive effects of leader gender and expressive status cues, each moderated by the perceiver's social dominance orientation (SDO), on the leader's status and a three-way interaction between leader gender and race (combined), indicative status cues, and the perceiver's SDO: indicative status cues influenced leader selection and leadership impression through status favorably for White men. In contrast, they influenced leader selection and leadership impressions through status unfavorably for Black women, but only when the perceiver's SDO was higher. Contributions and future research directions are discussed.
