TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Trust after just 45 seconds? An experimental vignette study of how leader behavior and emotional states influence immediate trust in strangers
JO  - Frontiers in psychology
A1  - Olsen, Olav Kjellevold
A1  - Heesch, Phillip V.
A1  - Søreide, Christian
A1  - Hystad, Sigurd W.
SP  - e2921
EP  - e2921
VL  - 10
IS  - 
N2  - Many critical and unexpected situations are handled by people that have never met. In the literature, development of immediate trust has been identified as a prerequisite for such temporary groups and leadership to function well. Limited experimental research has studied what leadership stimulates immediate trust between strangers. The present study investigate how four leadership styles, combining autocratic or democratic leadership behavior with low or high emotional stability, is related to immediate trust in a leader displayed through a 45-s video vignette of a car accident. A sample of 280 adults, randomly assigned to one of four conditions (1, autocratic/stable; 2, autocratic/unstable; 3, democratic/stable; 4, democratic/unstable) rated immediate trust after watching the vignette. The results show that autocratic and emotionally stable leaders were on average rated higher on immediate trust than all other leadership styles, after controlling for generalized trust.<br><br>Copyright © 2020 Olsen, Heesch, Søreide and Hystad.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1664-1078
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02921
ID  - ref1
ER  -