Festival leaders: charisma and inebriating substances (IS)

Charismatic Leadership and Organizational Hierarchy: Attribution of Charisma to Close and Distant Leaders

This study examined the attribution of charisma to socially close and distant leaders. Respondents were 554 Israeli combat soldiers who completed five questionnaires describing their perceptions of either their platoon commander or their battalion commander. The results showed that the attribution of charisma to socially close leaders is related to the ascription of extraordinary traits to the ...

Charisma and Moral Reasoning

Charisma is morally problematic insofar as it replaces followers’ capacity to engage in genuine moral reasoning. When followers defer to charismatic leaders and act in ways that are morally wrong they are not only blameworthy for wrongdoing but for failing in their deliberative obligations. Even when followers defer to charismatic leaders and do the right thing, their action is less praiseworth...

Competence or Charisma? The effects of measurement on why some leaders’ traits matter more than others

Who Sees Charisma? Power and the Conferral of Charisma

Previous research on charismatic leadership has sought to answer the question “Who has charisma?” In the present research, we ask, “Who sees charisma?” In Study 1, we find that lowpower individuals are more willing than those with high power to confer charisma on others. In Study 2, we replicate this effect and demonstrate an interaction between the power of the perceiver and the power of the t...

Augustine on Manichaeism and Charisma

Augustine was suspicious of charismatics‘ claims to superior righteousness, which supposedly authorized them to relay truths about creation and redemption. What follows finds the origins of that suspicion in his disenchantment with celebrities on whom Manichees relied, specialists whose impeccable behavior and intellectual virtuosity were taken as signs that they possessed insight into the mean...