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Thursday, 19 May 2016

May 19


1535 French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for North America.
1536 Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII‘s second wife, is beheaded on Tower Green.
1568 Defeated by the Protestants, Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England where Queen Elizabeth imprisons her.
1588 The Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon, Spain.



1635 Cardinal Richelieu of France intervenes in the great conflict in Europe by declaring war on the Hapsburgs in Spain.



1780 Near total darkness descends on New England at noon. No explanation is found.
1856 Senator Charles Sumner speaks out against slavery.






Born on May 19



1879 Lady Nancy Astor (Nancy Witcher Langhorne), the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons.



1895 Johns Hopkins, merchant and philanthropist.
1925 Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), African-American activist.

The Leadership Quarterly
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Do we want a fighter? The influence of group status and the stability of intergroup relations on leader prototypicality and endorsement ☆


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Abstract

Based on the idea that leadership is a group process, we propose that followers' endorsement of a leader depends on particular leadership strategies being perceived to be best suited for maintaining or advancing group identity in the context of prevailing intergroup relations. Three experimental studies with different samples aimed to examine how socio-structural variables that define intergroup relations impact on leader–follower relations and on the support that followers give to leaders who adopt different approaches to manage intergroup relations. We demonstrate that after manipulating the status and the stability of intergroup relations followers endorse leaders who strategically engage in group-oriented behaviour that maps onto optimal identity-management strategies. These patterns mirrored differences across contexts in the perceived prototypicality. We conclude that intergroup relations influence leaders' strategic behaviour and followers' reaction to them. Findings highlight the importance of understanding leadership as both a within- and between-group process.

Keywords

  • Leadership support; 
  • Identity; 
  • Prototypicality; 
  • Intergroup relations
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This research was supported by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (RES-062-23-0135) awarded to the second author. We would like to thank Kathryn Burnside, David Chorlton, Caitlin Jones and Tamara Frank for the data collection and Neil Wilson for comments on an earlier draft.
Corresponding author at: Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK.
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James Lehrer, broadcast journalist.
1941 Jane Brody, food and health writer.
1941 Nora Ephron, screenwriter and director.
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