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| Type | Conference Presentation |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Who is seen as a charismatic leader? The role of environmental features in charisma attributions |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Publisher | Academy of Management |
| ISSN | 2151-6561 |
| Series Name | Academy of Management Proceedings |
| Number | 1 |
| Page Range | 18504 |
| Event Title | 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Event Start Date | August 9 - 2019 |
| Event End Date | August 13 - 2019 |
| Abstract Text | Charisma is conceptualized as an attribution that followers grant their leader, based on their leader’s looks, words, and behaviors. Once followers attribute charisma to their leader, they are particularly receptive to the leader’s influence. Here we suggest that charisma attributions are also affected by the physical environment in which followers see their leader. Although the environment by itself should have no bearing on a person’s quality, we theorize that the attribution process by which charisma is granted is susceptible to peripheral cues such as the grandiosity or mundanity of the surroundings in which a leader appears. We test these ideas across four experimental studies, casting leaders in either awe-inducing or ordinary environments. No matter whether our stimuli feature actual or fictional charismatic leaders, or whether our stimuli are presented as pictures, text or video, the findings suggest that awe-inducing physical environments amplify charisma attributions for leaders. Although results vary somewhat across studies, we also find that awe-inducing physical environments provide a stronger boost in charisma attributions for those who would otherwise not be seen as holding charismatic appeal. Overall, our results indicate that followers do not only consider the leader, but also the environment in forming their charisma attributions. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.5465/AMBPP.2019.237 |
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