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Nature vs nurture: are leaders born or made? A behavior genetic investigation of leadership style.
Twin research : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies - 1 Dec 1998
Johnson A M, Vernon P A, McCarthy J M, Molson M, Harris J A, Jang K L
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With the recent resurgence in popularity of trait theories of leadership, it is timely to consider the genetic determination of the multiple factors comprising the leadership construct. Individual differences in personality traits have been found to be moderately to highly heritable, and so it follows that if there are reliable personality trait differences between leaders and non-leaders, then there may be a...
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