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dc.contributor.authorPrice, ME-
dc.contributor.authorVan Vugt, M-
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-16T11:12:55Z-
dc.date.available2014-09-16T11:12:55Z-
dc.date.issued2014-
dc.identifier.citationFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8: Article no. 363, 2014en_US
dc.identifier.issn1662-5161-
dc.identifier.urihttps://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00363/fullen
dc.identifier.urihttps://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9097-
dc.descriptionCopyright © 2014 Price and Van Vugt. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.en_US
dc.descriptionThis article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.-
dc.description.abstractWe describe the service-for-prestige theory of leadership, which proposes that voluntary leader–follower relations evolved in humans via a process of reciprocal exchange that generated adaptive benefits for both leaders and followers. We propose that although leader–follower relations first emerged in the human lineage to solve problems related to information sharing and social coordination, they ultimately evolved into exchange relationships whereby followers could compensate leaders for services which would otherwise have been prohibitively costly for leaders to provide. In this exchange, leaders incur costs to provide followers with public goods, and in return, followers incur costs to provide leaders with prestige (and associated fitness benefits). Because whole groups of followers tend to gain from leader-provided public goods, and because prestige is costly for followers to produce, the provisioning of prestige to leaders requires solutions to the “free rider” problem of disrespectful followers (who benefit from leader services without sharing the costs of producing prestige). Thus service-for-prestige makes the unique prediction that disrespectful followers of beneficial leaders will be targeted by other followers for punitive sentiment and/or social exclusion. Leader–follower relations should be more reciprocal and mutually beneficial when leaders and followers have more equal social bargaining power. However, as leaders gain more relative power, and their high status becomes less dependent on their willingness to pay the costs of benefitting followers, service-for-prestige predicts that leader–follower relations will become based more on leaders’ ability to dominate and exploit rather than benefit followers. We review evidential support for a set of predictions made by service-for-prestige, and discuss how service-for-prestige relates to social neuroscience research on leadership.en_US
dc.languageEnglish-
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S.A.en_US
dc.subjectleadershipen_US
dc.subjectfollowershipen_US
dc.subjectreciprocityen_US
dc.subjectcollective actionen_US
dc.subjectevolutionary psychologyen_US
dc.subjectsocial statusen_US
dc.subjectdominanceen_US
dc.subjectprestigeen_US
dc.titleThe evolution of leader-follower reciprocity: The theory of service-for-prestigeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00363-
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