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| Mark Van VugtSummaryAffiliation: University of Kent Country: UK Publications
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Evolutionary origins of leadership and followershipMark Van Vugt
Department of Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 10:354-71. 2006..In general, evolutionary theory provides a useful, integrative framework for studying leader-follower relationships and generates various novel research hypotheses...
Gender differences in cooperation and competition: the male-warrior hypothesisMark Van Vugt
University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Psychol Sci 18:19-23. 2007..These findings suggest that men respond more strongly than women to intergroup threats. We speculate about the evolutionary origins of this gender difference and note some implications...
Leadership, followership, and evolution: some lessons from the pastMark Van Vugt
Department of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NP, United Kingdom
Am Psychol 63:182-96. 2008..The authors draw several implications of this evolutionary analysis for leadership theory, research, and practice...
Sex differences in the emergence of leadership during competitions within and between groupsMark Van Vugt
University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Psychol Sci 19:854-8. 2008..These findings suggest that particular group threats elicit specific gender-biased leader prototypes. We speculate about the evolutionary and cultural origins of these sex differences in the emergence of leadership...
Despotism, democracy, and the evolutionary dynamics of leadership and followershipMark Van Vugt
Department of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Am Psychol 64:discussion 54-6. 2009..In the second commentary, Guastello concurred with the importance of an evolutionary game analysis for studying leadership but disagreed with certain details of our analysis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)...
Sex differences in intergroup competition, aggression, and warfare: the male warrior hypothesisMark Van Vugt
Centre for the Study of Group Processes, Department of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1167:124-34. 2009..I also discuss implications of this hypothesis for managing intergroup relations in our society...
Nice guys finish first: the competitive altruism hypothesisCharlie L Hardy
Department of Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NP, United Kingdom
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1402-13. 2006..These results support the premise at the heart of competitive altruism: Individuals may behave altruistically for reputation reasons because selective benefits (associated with status) accrue to the generous...
Social identity as social glue: the origins of group loyaltyMark Van Vugt
School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
J Pers Soc Psychol 86:585-98. 2004..Hence, social identity seems to act as social glue. It provides stability in groups that would otherwise collapse...
From fault line to group fission: understanding membership changes in small groupsClaire M Hart
School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:392-404. 2006..The authors discuss the implications of these findings for theory and research on membership changes in small groups...
