Authors
Wendy de Waal-Andrews, Mark van Vugt
Publication date
2020/6/1
Source
Current opinion in psychology
Volume
33
Pages
142-147
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Human follower psychology may result from at least three adaptive needs.
- Contemporary contexts that evoke these needs will affect leader preferences.
- We discuss leader characteristics and motives associated with each of these needs.
- We identify factors moderating leader preferences and potential risks for followers.
- Implications for modern organizations and female leadership require further study.
Humans have an evolved flexible followership psychology that enables them to select different leaders in different contexts, depending on their needs. We distinguish a triad of follower needs:(i) guidance into a shared direction,(ii) active protection against threats, and (iii) judicious dispute settlement. These needs relate to critical group coordination challenges described in biology and anthropology and to different evolutionary leadership theories. We describe the contexts, in which these needs emerge, the …
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W de Waal-Andrews, M van Vugt - Current opinion in psychology, 2020