How's your photographic memory?
These were the two options presented with the question, "which is scarier?"
What is a spider and a car?
Height boosts perceived leadership for both genders but this group experiences a stronger effect.
The automatic human reaction to fear that prepares the body to run or battle is called this.
What is fight or flight?
Today, effective leaders are recognized as having a mix of these two types of traits.
What are masculine and feminine traits?
This personality model, including traits like openness and conscientiousness, gave trait research more validity.
What is the Big 5 or OCEAN?
Accept either
These were the two food options given for Ashley to bring to class.
What are donuts and vegetable platter?
One hypothesized non-leadership factor that could explain why taller men are overrepresented as CEOs.
What is genetics, nutrition, or socioeconomic status?
Accept any 1 of the above 3
This theory uses evolutionary psychology to explain why we see tall people as better leaders.
What is Evolutionary Leadership Theory (ELT)?
The preference for masculine-looking leaders increases in this context of leadership selection.
What is wartime or conflict?
Accept either
This 19th-century theory sparked the long-term study of leadership traits.
What is the Great Man theory?
This was the largest word bubble of important leadership traits,
This cultural factor may shift how height affects leadership status in different global regions.
What is collectivism vs. individualism?
The evolutionary psychology reason humans fear spiders more than cars despite cars being deadlier is this.
What is evolutionary mismatch or ancestral threat bias?
Accept either
In a leadership election study, women were perceived as better at this kind of leadership within groups.
What is intragroup peacekeeping?
A major limitation of the trait approach is that it does not account for these effects that vary leadership success by context.
What are situational effects?
The first slide addressing gender shows a picture of a man a woman arm wrestling. This was the gender of the person on the left side of the image.
Who is the man?
This U.S. president was the only one under 6 feet tall since 1980.
Who is George Bush?
Despite modern life, humans still have brains adapted for this era, sometimes called the Stone Age brain.
What is the African savannah/Pleistocene era? Accept either
People preferred younger leaders during periods characterized by this kind of change.
What is technological change?
Some effective leaders succeed by balancing opposite traits, like combining visionary thinking with this.
What is attention to detail?
The graphic comparing the heights of US presidents depicts every president as a plain stick figure except these two presidents who were given a defining feature.
Who are Abe Lincoln and Donald Trump?
Rounded to the nearest 10%, this is the percentage of CEOs that are 6 feet or taller, compared to only 14.5% of U.S. men.
What is 60% (58%)?
This researcher argued that people follow leaders based on trust, not just anyone.
Who is van Vugt?
In the fictitious country of Taminia, participants voted on leaders in scenarios involving conflict with this type of entity.
What is a neighboring country?
Trait assessment can be a good predictor of whether leadership emerges (or not), but it's not as good for distinguishing who will be this.
What is effective?