CEF.UP – MaR Seminar/Webinar

Friday – June 9 ^th , 2023 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Room 305 | Online

“On studying charisma scientifically”

John Antonakis – University of Lausanne, HEC (Switzerland) and Cef.up’s External Advisory Board

“I will provide an overview of charisma and why it should be re-defined from a signaling perspective. I will show why questionnaire measures should never be used to gauge charisma as an independent variable, and why charisma should be experimentally manipulated in the context of consequential experiments or measured via objective signals. I will provide evidence showing that charisma can help individuals deliver a vision that sticks, motivate workers, or help coordinate player actions in public good settings. Finally I will show that charisma is a difficult to emulate skill that depends strongly on cognitive ability–hence it is a costly signal.”