The Erotic Charisma of Alexander Hamilton

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...

John D. Rockefeller and Alexander Hamilton The Founding Fathers of Agile

Introduction Nothing has ever been invented — not the light bulb, not the automobile, not the iPhone. Someone at some point got the notion to combine two or more existing ideas and call it the next new thing. So it was with the Agile Alliance, the Agile Manifesto and its nine principles. In February 2001, 17 “anarchists” met to create a common and more efficient method of software development. ...

Alexander Hamilton, Party Polarization, and Confidence in Governmental Institutions during the Clinton Impeachment Trial

The power of charisma--perceived charisma inhibits the frontal executive network of believers in intercessory prayer.

This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how assumptions about speakers' abilities changed the evoked BOLD response in secular and Christian participants who received intercessory prayer. We find that recipients' assumptions about senders' charismatic abilities have important effects on their executive network. Most notably, the Christian participants deactivated 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...