Charisma is a costly signal

V Akstinaite, UT Jensen, M Vlachos, A Erne… - The Leadership …, 2024 - Elsevier
A key assumption in modern conceptualizations of charisma is that it is a costly signal. It thus
should be easier for intelligent individuals to produce this signal: it requires one to be …

Effect of crises on charisma signaling: A regression discontinuity design

N Bastardoz, P Jacquart, J Antonakis - The Leadership Quarterly, 2024 - Elsevier
Scholars have investigated the emergence of charismatic leaders in times of crisis.
However, results from this research are usually descriptive, suffer from endogeneity bias, or …

Charisma in the gig economy: The impact of digital leadership and communication channels on performance

P Nieken - The Leadership Quarterly, 2023 - Elsevier
Remote and gig work is prevalent in today's labor market and calls for skilled digital leaders.
Signaling charisma using charismatic-leadership-tactics (CLTs) to increase follower …

An insatiable hunger for charisma? A follower-centric analysis of populism and charismatic leadership

R Metz, B Plesz - Leadership, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
While scholarship often assumes that strong leaders and charismatic leadership play an
important role in the emergence of populist politics, research has missed a closer …

[HTML][HTML] Are we on the same page? Leader-follower value congruence as a boundary condition in the emergence of charismatic effects

R Wilms, N Bastardoz, CS El Dahan… - The Leadership Quarterly, 2024 - Elsevier
In the emergence of the charismatic effect, the leader–follower value congruence
assumption posits that the charisma signal creates a charismatic effect for followers who …

Combating COVID-19 with charisma: Evidence on governor speeches in the United States

UT Jensen, D Rohner, O Bornet, D Carron… - The Leadership …, 2023 - Elsevier
Using field and laboratory data, we show that leader charisma can affect COVID-related
mitigating behaviors. We coded a panel of US governor speeches for charisma signaling …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of charismatic leadership on followers' attentional processes

LH Engelbert, M van Elk, J Theeuwes… - The Leadership …, 2025 - Elsevier
We examined how followers process consistent versus inconsistent messages from a highly
charismatic versus non-charismatic leader on a theme relevant to both leader and follower …

The Role of Charismatic Leadership Tactics and Inconsistent Messages in Processing and Evaluating Climate Change Information

LH Engelbert, M Van Elk, J Theeuwes… - Collabra …, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
Climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to humanity, and persuasive
environmental communication is a crucial step for global leaders to counteract its …

The Backdrop of Leadership: How Environmental Awe Influences Charisma Attributions

J McGuire, N Bastardoz, LJ Hentrup… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Charisma is often attributed to leaders based on how they look, talk, and behave. Yet very
little is known about the role of the physical environment in influencing attributions of leader …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of the charisma signal and voice pitch in female leader selection

R Wilms, JK Oostrom, E van Garderen - The Leadership Quarterly, 2025 - Elsevier
Women are often discriminated against in leader selection contexts. This study examines the
charisma signal, voice pitch, and their interaction in female leader selection (ie, perceptions …