Papers | Daedalus Trust

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. ...

Written by: Hirshleifer, Low and Teoh.

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...

Written by: Deshmukh, Goel and Howe.

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...

Written by: Lammers, J., Stapel, D. A., & Galinsky, A. D

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...

Written by: Trumbull, D.

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...

Written by: Ecker, Marquand, Mourao-Miranda et al.

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...

Written by: De Dreu, Carsten K. W.

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...

Written by: De Dreu, Greer and Handgraaf.

Ethical marginality: the Icarus syndrome and banality of wrongdoing. (2010)

"High performance organizations are favorable hosts for wrongdoing because high performance requires aggressive behavior at the ethical margins of what is acceptable. The way leadership reacts to competition sets the stage...

Written by: Balch and Armstrong.

CEO hubris and firm risk taking in China: the moderating role of managerial discretion. (2010)

The positive relationship between CEO hubris and firm risk taking was stronger when CEO managerial discretion was stronger: when a firm faced munificent but complex markets; had less inertia and...

Written by: Li and Tang.

Beyond the dark side of executive psychology: Current research and new directions. (Oct 2010)

"The authors analyze existing research and identify issues in definitions and measurement and describe how researchers have fallen prey to hubris fascination. This leads them to put forward two options for future...

Written by: Bollaert and Petit.