Leader corruption depends on power and testosterone
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Why are leaders corrupt? This question has teased and taunted researchers over the years; however, there is not much research that has examined this question using experimental designs that give real power to leaders in real-stakes situations. In this animated, fun, but also science-packed podcast, Prof. John Antonakis explains what he and his colleagues--Dr. Samuel Bendahan, Prof. Christian Zehnder, and Prof. François Pralong--found in two experimental studies. Both power (leader choice set and number of followers) and the person (baseline testosterone) caused corruption. The implications of this study are far reaching and should make individuals responsible for organizational governance mechanisms to pause and think about how much power and discretionary choices leaders should have.
Link to read the article: dx.doi.org/10.1...
The biggest flaw with this experiment is the fact that the individuals participating in the experiment were anonymous (also a lesser flaw is that the experiment was known to be an experiment to the participants). You have less incentive to really care about being helpful in an experiment to others if you are offered real money for "just a random experiment" where you will never return to see the people you interact with. More importantly, and expanding on that point, being anonymous to other participants does not invoke social norms which tend to guide peoples individual morality. If there are no social norms and you never see these people again, your setting up a perfect antisocial environment with no social repercussions. The very fact that there are real social repercussions in real life forces SOME people to behave and think differently. Social interaction play a huge role in the aspect of how leaders behave and how corruption comes about.
That being said a very useful aspect of this study is the information on testosterone and corruption.
Interesting, at times with humour and effective. Thank you Universersite' de Lausanne
Minor error at 6:25 the box at anti-social & to each follower is 130 and should be 170.
I think one flaw is that the second experiment adds a fourth "very antisocial" but not a corresponding fifth "very prosocial" option. For one thing, I think the presence of a "very antisocial" option can make the mildly less antisocial option psychologically more acceptable, and so the very presence of that option may move some people from Default to Antisocial, as suddenly the "bad" option is "well, not really so bad" and there is nothing to counter that in the other direction. Second, if you start from a blank slate that assumes no particular tendency of a random population in advance of the experiment, then your "starting point" is that each group "should" have an equal number of people in it at the end of the experiment, and that variation from that is evidence if what you're looking for. This works fine in the three-option version. But in the four-option version, 50% of the choices present a negative result and only 25% of the choices present a positive result, so the test has a skew built into it. Again, a 5-option version would have fixed this.
Hey! I think there is a mistake in a chart around 5:55. Follower's salary is, in both Antisocial and Very antisocial, 130. In the column next to it, it clearly shows that it should be 170. Anyway, great video, little sad that most of us are doomed to be consumed by power's corruption as soon we get a taste of it :(
Yes, I think you're right
🤰Who leads one to death ⚰🤔???...
That's one to think on...
Within the hopes this helps...
This, I feel, is the why our society is so dysfunctional. Because Alpha's can be so dangerous, yet we can't help but to elevate and worship them. It is in our nature to follow seek out leaders: political, business, fashion. And we choose not to hold them accountable. If we accepted the truth (that they are beyond inept but cruel) it would leave us in an existential mess.
Testosterone is what makes men human. If you want to take away men's Testosterone, then you are a fool. Low testosterone men are responsible for most of society's ills, not alphas.
@ makers of this video. There is a mistake in your table at 6:00. Row 3 , column 3: antisocial, to each of 3 follower: the pay-out is 130? In calculating the social surplus you use 170?
Anna S Yes, you're right.
So, when people have not only an "antisocial choice", but also a "very antisocial choice", they were more likely to take an "antisocial choice"? What would happen if they had four options, where the fourth was "very prosocial"? Would they still be more likely to take "antisocial"?
Instead of stronger government control, why not less power? Why address the symptom when you can address the problem? Criminals always find ways around rules.
Good insights. Are you going to follow this up with what factors influence the cases that didn't fall to the corruption? I would love to see what keeps people trustworthy. Their stated values or beliefs? Experiences that they have had? Good stuff!
So, what your proposing is that government step in and contain the powerful people. In other words - somebody with more power than the powerful people come step in. Well who contains the power of the more powerful people? Didn't we fix one problem by creating another bigger problem? Other than that logic problem there, great paper :)
question,in this video, how are a few reasons how power can corrupt when power effects decisions/morals?
The guy floating on the green screen is so goofy.
That is why world need more introverted leaders
Just read the quote from Lord Acton, the whole of it not just the first part - there are no exceptions to corruption when it comes to power.
The very nature of power is corruption as it involves deceiving others into obeying your commands by making them think that they will benefit, when all along the main motivation of the leader is personal benefit - there is no exception to this whether it be religion, politics, academia or science.
If you are a sociopath then a leadership position probably suits you, if you want to develop sociopathic tendencies then a leadership position probably suits you too.
"Leadership Quarterly" - LMFAO^9999999 - I see a lot of virtue signalling within leadership but really we are just a bunch of apes with sociopathic alpha members - the only difference is that we have a sophistication where instead of bludgeoning each other to death the alphas encourage the bludgeoning of the mental, emotional and social wellbeing of anyone who challenges them.
Duty above power, That's why it's hard to be a judge, or any uncorrupted position with high power. It does not even feel good. I've always stepped down from having too much power in my life. I've seen so many examples of its enabling to corruption.
You would rather be a low testosterone beta male with low social status. People like you are so laughable
@@AsAWhiteManMarriedToALatina I don't get how you reached your conclusion but really don't care if you misunderstood. I said I never take a position unless I know I'll over deliver and never slack or corrupt. I have decades of expertise in project planning and leading. I'm a leader of his word and I make sure I look after all my team work and succeed before I do that's why I'm not a good politician, but I never made a promise and not delivered. I always underpromise and overdeliver in every position I took in job and life. Policiticians succeed because they lie and sell promises they don't deliver.
nice research...
Excellent