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| Title: | An Evolutionary Psychology of Leader-Follower Relations
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| Author: | Patrick McNamara & David Trumbull |
| ISBN: | 1604566000 : 9781604566000 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Weight: | .284 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - April 2009 |
| List Price: | 32.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Psychology |
The purpose of the book is to summarise recent advances in our understanding of leader-follower interactions and to illustrate these principles with the lives of ancient political and military leaders from Greece and Rome. The authors review psychologic, cognitive neuroscientific and evolutionary approaches to leader-follower dynamics and illustrate these dynamics as they played out in the lives of the most eminent of the military and political leaders of the classical world. The authors summarise what is known about leader-follower relations by reviewing all extant papers on the topic in the psychology, neuroscientific and evolutionary psychology literature. The raw material for the book came from Plutarch's compendium of 46 biographies of Greek and Roman leaders.
Preface; Evolutionary psychology approaches to the phenomenon of the leader; Leadership and cooperation; Dynamics of Leader-follower relations; Leadership and Social Intelligence; Language, rhetoric and leadership; The co-evolution of war and the dominance strategy in leadership; Prestige-oriented versus dominance-oriented styles of leadership; Cicero versus Pompey: An illustration of the prestige and the dominance styles of leadership in conflict; Caesar: The synthesis of the prestige and dominance styles of leadership; Alexander: The synthesis of prestige and dominance II; Index.
