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Chapter 6 How and When Leader Behavior Affects Intergroup Liking: Affect, Approval, and Allophilia

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Abstract

We report on research that investigated the emotional mediation of leader behavior on observers' affinity for the members of a leader's group. Participants (N=181) read a vignette describing the positive, negative, or neutral behaviors of a national leader, and the approval or disapproval of that leader's followers for that behavior. Results revealed that liking (i.e., allophilia) for the leader's followers decreased when the group leader behaved negatively and group members expressed approval for their leader. These changes in allophilia were mediated by the amount of anger experienced by the participant. Implications of these findings for future work on leadership and intergroup relations are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAffect and Groups
EditorsElizabeth Mannix, Margaret Neale, Cameron Anderson
Pages125-144
Number of pages20
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007

Publication series

NameResearch on Managing Groups and Teams
Volume10
ISSN (Print)1534-0856

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