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An evolutionary psychology of leader-follower relations / Patrick McNamara and David Trumbull.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNamara, Patrick, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leadership--Psychological aspects.
- Leadership.
- Followership--Psychological aspects.
- Followership.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (139 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Summarises advances in our understanding of leader-follower interactions. This book illustrate these principles with the lives of ancient political and military leaders from Greece and Rome. It reviews psychologic, cognitive neuroscientific and evolutionary approaches to leader-follower dynamics.
- Contents:
- Intro
- AN EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY OFLEADER-FOLLOWER RELATIONS
- CONTENTS
- EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY APPROACHES TO THEPHENOMENON OF THE LEADER
- INTRODUCTION
- LEADERSHIP AND COOPERATION
- EFFECTS OF 'GOOD' LEADERS
- THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA (PD)
- REPUTATION AND THE RISE OF THE LEADER
- CHARACTER MATTERS
- ROOTS OF LEADERSHIP IN COSTLY SIGNALS AND RITUAL
- COSTLY SIGNALING THEORY
- LEADERS PUNISH FREE-RIDERS AND ENFORCE THE LAWS
- DYNAMICS OF LEADER-FOLLOWER RELATIONS
- THE SCIENCE OF EMULATION
- EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SOCIAL LEARNING
- AREAS OF THE BRAIN THAT PARTICIPATEIN EMULATION AND IMITATIVE LEARNING
- SPECIAL ROLE OF EMPATHY
- LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
- COMPLEXITY OF LEADERSHIP
- SOCIAL LEARNING
- EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL LEARNING
- ROOTS OF SOCIAL LEARNING
- EARLY TEACHER/LEADERS AND THEORIGINS OF CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP
- THE MASTER-DISCIPLE RELATION AS ANEVOLUTIONARILY-STABLE STRATEGY
- RITUAL, COSTLY SIGNALS AND THE IDENTIFICATION OFINDIVIDUALS WITH EXCEPTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS
- LANGUAGE, RHETORIC AND LEADERSHIP
- LANGUAGE EVOLUTION
- ROLE OF SOCIAL IMITATION INEVOLUTION OF THE PROTO-LANGUAGE
- LANGUAGE USE AND RHETORIC
- RELEVANCE
- RELEVANCE AND ALTRUISM
- RELEVANCE IMPOSES STRUCTURE ON CONVERSATIONS
- THE CO-EVOLUTION OF WAR AND THE DOMINANCESTRATEGY IN LEADERSHIP
- BIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF DOMINANCE
- PRESTIGE-ORIENTED VERSUS DOMINANCEORIENTEDSTYLES OF LEADERSHIP
- PRESTIGE VS. DOMINANCE
- PRESTIGE AND THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF LEADERSHIP
- LEADERS EMPHASIZING DOMINANCE RATHER THAN PRESTIGE
- LEADERS EMPHASIZING PRESTIGE AT THE EXPENSE OF DOMINANCE
- CICERO VERSUS POMPEY: AN ILLUSTRATION OF THEPRESTIGE AND THE DOMINANCE STYLES OFLEADERSHIP IN CONFLICT
- WHO WAS CICERO?
- CICERO VS. MACHIAVELLI.
- DANGERS OF LEADERSHIP AS ENUMERATED BY CICERO
- CICERO'S HANDLING OF THE BURDENS OF LEADERSHIP
- ENTER CAESAR
- FINAL BATTLES
- CAESAR: THE SYNTHESIS OF THE PRESTIGE ANDDOMINANCE STYLES OF LEADERSHIP
- EVALUATION OF THE CHARACTER OF CAESAR
- THE CONCEPT OF THE 'MOMENT OF DESTINY'
- EARLY LIFE
- RISE TO MILITARY GENIUS
- ENEMIES BACK IN ROME
- THE ROAD TO THE RUBICON
- WHY CAESAR HESITATED
- CAESAR ACTS
- ALEXANDER: THE SYNTHESIS OFPRESTIGE AND DOMINANCE II
- CROESUS, CYRUS AND ALEXANDER
- THE BATTLE OF ISSUS (333 BC)
- BATTLE OF GUAGAMELA (331 BC)
- REFERENCES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-121) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60741-416-3
- OCLC:
- 704284668
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