What qualities do you need to be a great leader? Do certain personality traits help people become better leaders? According to the trait theory of leadership, people who posses certain leadership traits tend to be better leaders. Do Leadership Traits Exist?…
During the summer of 1954, 22 boys between the ages of 11 and 12 arrived at a 200 acre camp at the Robbers Cave State Park in Oklahoma for what they believed was just a normal summer camp. What they…
The Milgram experiment focused on the power of obedience to authority. There have been many controversial experiments in psychology history, including Milgram’s classic obedience experiment. The experiment was considered so controversial, in fact, that most assume that such a study…
Leadership styles can be defined as a person’s way of governing, directing, and motivating followers. Over the last 50 or so years, researchers have proposed a number of different leadership styles characterized by those in business, politics, technology, and other…
Kitty Genovese was the victim of a terrible crime that ultimately ended her life and led to her inadvertently becoming one of the most famous cases in psychology. Learn more about this young woman and the influence her murder had…
In social psychology, the scarcity principle refers to the tendency to place a higher value on things that are perceived as rare while devaluing things that are seen as common or abundant. Learn more about how marketers take advantage of…
“Effective leadership is finding a good fit between behaviour, context, and need.” – White & Hodgson, 2003 What is it exactly that makes a leader effective? According to one theory of leadership that became prominent during the 1970s and 80s,…
The ingroup bias is the tendency that people have to favor their own group above that of others. This bias can have a powerful influence on both individual and group behavior. It may be as simple as favoring your own…
