we find that communal traits like honesty, openness, care, and compassion define the ideal leader. we find evidence across eight studies (and five supplemental studies) that followers prefer communal leaders and will choose communality even at the expense of agency.

turns out, agentic traits like dominance, assertiveness, and even competence loom large in the minds of people when asked about the TYPICAL leader. but things shift dramatically when you ask about the IDEAL leader or the person people want to work for.

💡 ChatGPT-generated advice was rated as higher quality, more effective, and even more authentic than human-generated advice—but only when people didn’t know it was from ChatGPT.

we replicated this with Claude and Gemini!

⏰ new paper alert ⏰ from Merrick Osborne & me at Scientific Reports.

five preregistered experiments (+ three supplemental studies) explore LLM-generated personal advice and compare it's performance to human-generated personal advice.

what we finally have is part review piece, part scale validation, and part exploration of where we can go. all written in Blaine's characteristically colorful language that I adore so much.

my first paper thread on 🦋 and it's a double dipper!

first, out now from Blaine Horton, me, and Sheena Iyengar in Self & Identity.

how do you measure state authenticity or momentarily feeling like yourself??