Submitted to SPSP, 2004 Austin, Texas Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting: January 2004 Poster Abstract Information Perceptions of Achievement: Privileging Innate or Acquired Ability? Malcolm Gladwell’s paper “The Quarterback Problem” describes the naturalness bias or hierarchy in which most of society seems to favor natural talent, whether it is seen in sports, busines...

Spatial mobility is considered a valuable resource for social mobility. Yet, we still have an insufficient understanding of the extent to which and under what conditions geographical movement across national borders represents asset advancement. Addressing this research gap, offer theoretical contribution fields transnationalism, migration/mobility, geography. We focus on 86 cross-border migran...

We propose that a leadership identity is coconstructed in organizations when individuals claim and grant leader and follower identities in their social interactions. Through this claiming-granting process, individuals internalize an identity as leader or follower, and those identities become relationally recognized through reciprocal role adoption and collectively endorsed within the organizati...

Abstract Research Summary How do job‐applicants with entrepreneurship experience—“post‐entrepreneurs”—fare in the wage labor job market? We propose an “entrepreneurship‐experience penalty” generally occurs yet varies strength depending on recruiters faced by post‐entrepreneurs their application process. In experiment utilizing selection‐decisions of 275 (experimental study participants) reactio...

This paper focuses on the quality of entrepreneurs when individuals, who di¤er in terms of entrepreneurial ability and wealth, choose between entrepreneurship and wage-earning. A loan is required to become an entrepreneur. Four wealth classes form endogenously. Banks’ inability to identify the ability of individuals leads them to o¤er pooling contracts to the poor and the lower-middle classes. ...

Stigma devalues individuals and groups, producing social and economic disadvantages through two distinct but reinforcing processes: direct discrimination (e.g., a White person not hiring a Black person based on race) and stigma internalization (e.g., women believing men are more qualified for leadership positions). We review strategies that individuals can use to not only cope with but also cha...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t The limited behavioral genetics research reported in the leadership literature has not investigated the degree to which early life experiences predict future emergence into leadership roles. This is the first study to focus on parenting style and early life experiences of rule breaking, and their relationships to leadership roles assumed in adulthood, while...