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The strength of weak leaders : an experiment on social influence and social learning in teams

Buechel, Berno ; Kloessner, Stefan ; Lochmueller, Martin ; Rauhut, Heiko

In: Experimental economics, 2019, p. 1-35

We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a laboratory experiment in which an incentivized guessing task is repeated in a star network with the leader at the center. Leader selection is either based on competence, on self-confidence, or made at random. In our setting, teams with random leaders do not underperform....

The framing of risks and the communication of subjective probabilities for victimizations

Krumpal, Ivar ; Rauhut, Heiko ; Böhr, Dorothea ; Naumann, Elias

In: Quality & Quantity, 2011, vol. 45, no. 6, p. 1331-1348

Does ignorance promote norm compliance?

Groeber, Patrick ; Rauhut, Heiko

In: Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2010, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 1-28

The strength of weak leaders - an experiment on social influence and social learning in teams

Buechel, Berno ; Klössner, Stefan ; Lochmüller, Martin ; Rauhut, Heiko

(Working Papers SES ; 486)

We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a lab experiment in which an incentivized guessing task is repeated in a star network with the leader at the center. Leader selection is either based on competence, on self-confidence, or made at random. Teams with random leaders do not underperform compared to rather competent...

How Norms Can Generate Conflict: An Experiment on the Failure of Cooperative Micro-motives on the Macro-level

Winter, Fabian ; Rauhut, Heiko ; Helbing, Dirk

In: Social Forces, 2012, vol. 90, no. 3, p. 919-946