TY - JOUR

T1 - Leadership research and cognitive neuroscience: the state of this union

AU - Lee, Nick

AU - Senior, Carl

AU - Butler, Michael

PY - 2012/4/1

Y1 - 2012/4/1

N2 - Advances in cognitive neuroscience and other approaches to understanding human behavior from a biological standpoint are only now beginning to filter into leadership research. The purpose of this introduction to the Leadership Quarterly Special Issue on the Biology of Leadership is to outline the organizational cognitive neuroscience approach to leadership research, and show how such an approach can fruitfully inform both leadership and neuroscientific research. Indeed, we advance the view that the further application of cognitive neuroscientific techniques to leadership research will pay great dividends in our understanding of effective leadership behaviors and as such, a future symbiosis between the two fields is a necessity.

AB - Advances in cognitive neuroscience and other approaches to understanding human behavior from a biological standpoint are only now beginning to filter into leadership research. The purpose of this introduction to the Leadership Quarterly Special Issue on the Biology of Leadership is to outline the organizational cognitive neuroscience approach to leadership research, and show how such an approach can fruitfully inform both leadership and neuroscientific research. Indeed, we advance the view that the further application of cognitive neuroscientific techniques to leadership research will pay great dividends in our understanding of effective leadership behaviors and as such, a future symbiosis between the two fields is a necessity.

KW - leadership theory

KW - organizational cognitive neuroscience

KW - evolutionary psychology

KW - biology

U2 - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.08.001

DO - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.08.001

M3 - Article

VL - 23

SP - 213

EP - 218

JO - Leadership Quarterly

JF - Leadership Quarterly

SN - 1048-9843

IS - 2

ER -