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Allen Grabo
This March I completed and defended my PhD Thesis "The Evolutionary Origins and Psychology of Charismatic Leadership,' leading to the publication of four theoretical and empirical articles in top journals. I am interested in the ‘big questions’ about the evolution of leadership - how and why human groups have evolved the types of leadership and followership behaviors we have, and how they can enable us to respond to adaptive challenges such as fostering large-scale cooperation and resolving social dilemmas. However, a large part of my research has focused on discovering and explaining the proximate psychological mechanisms that impact leadership and followership behavior, especially as they affect areas such as political elections and organizational hierarchies. Examples include the role of facial cues and social cognition in leadership emergence, the functioning of evolved heuristics in the decisionmaking of followers, and the impact of leadership styles on group behavior in economic games.
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