Empowering Mimicry: Female Leader Role Models Empower Women in Leadership Tasks Through Body Posture Mimicry.
In two studies we investigated the behavioral process through which visible female leader role models empower women in leadership tasks. We proposed that women tend to mimic the powerful (open) body postures of successful female role models, thus leading to more empowered behavior and better perform...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 80; no. 1/2; pp. 11 - 25 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=133898560&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 133898560 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03600025 SXR jtl: Sex Roles issn: 03600025 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan2019 vid: 80 iid: 1/2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 133898560 10.1007/s11199-018-0911-y ppf: 11 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 587KB tig: atl: Empowering Mimicry: Female Leader Role Models Empower Women in Leadership Tasks Through Body Posture Mimicry. aug: au: Latu, Ioana M. Mast, Marianne Schmid Bombari, Dario Lammers, Joris Hoyt, Crystal L. affil: Center for Identity and Intergroup Relations, Queen's University Belfast, 18-30 Malone Road, BT9 5BN, Belfast, UK Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Social Cognition Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA su: Imitative behavior Role models Self-efficacy Employee empowerment Women leaders Posture sug: subj: Imitative behavior Role models Self-efficacy Employee empowerment Women leaders Posture keyword: Empowerment Gender Human females Imitation Leadership Nonverbal communication Empowerment Gender Human females Imitation Leadership Nonverbal communication ab: In two studies we investigated the behavioral process through which visible female leader role models empower women in leadership tasks. We proposed that women tend to mimic the powerful (open) body postures of successful female role models, thus leading to more empowered behavior and better performance on a challenging leadership task, a process we called empowering mimicry. In Study 1, we experimentally manipulated the body posture of the male and female role models and showed that 86 Swiss college women mimicked the body posture of the female (ingroup) but not the male (outgroup) role model, thus leading to more empowered behavior and better performance on a public speaking task. In Study 2, we investigated the boundary conditions of this process and showed that empowering mimicry does not extend to exposures to non-famous female models among 50 Swiss college women. These findings suggest that nonverbal mimicry is one important mechanism through which female leader role models inspire women performing a challenging leadership task. From a practice perspective, our research underscores the importance of female leaders' visibility because visibility can drive other women's advancement in leadership by affording women the opportunity to mimic and be empowered by successful female role models. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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