Resources
Are overconfident CEOs better innovators? (2010)
"Firms with overconfident CEOs have greater return volatility, invest more in innovation, obtain more patents and patent citations, and achieve greater innovative success for given research and development expenditures. ...
CEO overconfidence and dividend policy. (2010)
"The level of dividend payout is lower in firms managed by overconfident CEOs. This reduction in dividends associated with CEO overconfidence is greater in firms with lower growth opportunities and...
Power: Why some people have it – and others don’t. (2010)
"One of the effects of power is that it dissolves inhibitions as effectively as alcohol. Powerful people tend to think rules do not apply to them, and their drives often override...
The Power Trip. (2010) Nice people are actually more likely to rise to power. But then authority atrophies the very talents that got them there.
"The very traits that helped leaders accumulate control in the first place all but disappear once they rise to power. Instead of being polite, honest and outgoing, they become impulsive,...
Power increases hypocrisy moralizing in reasoning, immorality in behavior. (2010)
“Across five experiments … we found strong evidence that the powerful are more likely to engage in moral hypocrisy than are people who lack power. J. Lammers, D.A. Stapel, Tilburg...
Hubris: a primal danger. (2010)
"Concern about hubris is deeply embedded in our genes. Humans might have evolved ways to ... prohibit behaviors which threaten them. Strivings for rank and power can be threats, which is why dire...
Describing the brain in autism in five dimensions – magnetic resonance imaging-assisted diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder using a multiparameter classification approach. (2010)
"The neuroanatomy of autism is truly multidimensional, and affects multiple and most likely independent cortical features. The spatial patterns detected using SVM may help further exploration of the specific genetic...
Social conflict: the emergence and consequences of struggle and negotiation. (2010)
"This essay considers how social conflict emerges, the ways in which it can be managed and the functions it performs. .. Conflict can have both negative and positive influences for teams...
The neuropeptide oxytocin regulates parochial altruism in intergroup conflict among humans. (2010)
"Oxytocin drives a “tend and defend” response in that it promoted in-group trust and cooperation, and defensive, but not offensive, aggression toward competing out-groups. Carsten K.W. De Dreu, Lindred...
The neuroscience of money: finding how traders tick. (2010)
"A fascinating overview of some of the most interesting research of the last few years into the neuroscience of money and the impact genetics, neurology, physics and biology might have on financial...