EJSP2005DaveEric leaderfollower
This 2005 EJSP article by David De Cremer and Eric van Dijk tests whether occupying a leader role causes people to take larger shares from a common resource and whether feelings of entitlement explain this. Two experiments with undergraduate samples show (1) in Study 1 leaders took more than followers and deviated more from the equal-division rule (900/5 = 180), and reported higher entitlement; mediation analyses (Baron & Kenny + Sobel) indicated entitlement partly explained the role effect. (2) Study 2 manipulated legitimacy of the leader role: legitimate leaders felt more entitled and allocated more to themselves than illegitimate leaders. The paper interprets findings via equity theory and cognitive role schemas and discusses boundary conditions and implications for leadership.
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10.1002/ejsp.260
81 undergraduate students
67 undergraduate students
900 Dutch Guilders total; equal share = 180 (900/5)
F(1,79) = 16.95, p < 0.001; means: leaders M = 204.55, followers M = 188.41 (SDs = 22.42, 11.13)