First Among Equals: Leaders, Peers, and Choice
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Eighteen teams of Norwegian Naval Cadets rated interpersonal behavior and ranked each other as leaders and peers before and after an outdoor training exercise. An analysis employing Group Field Dynamics demonstrated that (I) leaders are chosen on the basis of dominance and conformity, whereas coworkers are chosen on the basis of friendliness; (2) these criteria are affected by the group's interpersonal context; and (3) under some group contexts, the exercise causes cadets to modify their criteria for leadership selection
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