BrainCraft: Is Trump’s Bad Behavior Contagious?

Teacher or professor: BrainCraft
Subject: Science
Content of the Lesson: Get CuriosityStream AND Nebula for less than $15 per year (26% off!) https://curiositystream.com/braincraft How does' leaders bad behaviour affect how we act? SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! 👉 http://ow.ly/rt5IE My Twitter https://twitter.com/nessyhill | Instagram https://instagram.com/nessyhill Thank you to Assoc. Prof. Fast for speaking with me. More on his work: https://www.nathanaelfast.com/ This episode was written by Hannah Thomasy, edited by Dominique Taylor and produced and hosted by Vanessa Hill REFERENCES 📚 Hargie, O., Stapleton, K., & Tourish, D. (2010). Interpretations of CEO public apologies for the banking crisis: attributions of blame and avoidance of responsibility. Organization, 17(6), 721–742. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508410367840 Lee, Fiona & Tiedens, Larissa. (2001). Who's Being Served? “Self-Serving” Attributions in Social Hierarchies. Organizational behavior and human decision processes. 84. 254-287. 10.1006/obhd.2000.2925. Lee, F., Peterson, C., & Tiedens, L. Z. (2004). Mea Culpa: Predicting Stock Prices From Organizational Attributions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30(12), 1636–1649. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167204266654 Fast, N. J., & Tiedens, L. Z. (2010). Blame contagion: The automatic transmission of self-serving attributions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(1), 97–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.10.007 Tsvetkova M, Macy MW (2014) The Social Contagion of Generosity. PLOS ONE 9(2): e87275. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087275 Lozano EB, Laurent SM (2019) The effect of admitting fault versus shifting blame on expectations for others to do the same. PLOS ONE 14(3): e0213276. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213276 Celse, J., & Chang, K. (2019). Politicians lie, so do I. Psychological research, 83(6), 1311–1325. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0954-7 Barsade, S. G. (2002). The Ripple Effect: Emotional Contagion and its Influence on Group Behavior. Administrative Science Quarterly, 47(4), 644–675. https://doi.org/10.2307/3094912 Wolske, K.S., Gillingham, K.T. & Schultz, P.W. Peer influence on household energy behaviours. Nat Energy 5, 202–212 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-019-0541-9


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