The Role of Leadership Level in College Students' Decision-Making: Evidence From Event-Related Potential Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Although risk decision-making plays an important role in leadership practice, the distinction in behavior between humans with differing levels of leadership, as well as the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms involved, remain unclear. In this study, the Ultimatum Game (UG) was utilized in concert with electroencephalograms (EEG) to investigate the temporal course of cognitive and emotional processes involved in economic decision-making between high and low leadership level college students. Behavioral results from this study found that the acceptance rates in an economic transaction, when the partner was a computer under unfair/sub unfair condition, were significantly higher than in transactions with real human partners for the low leadership group, while there was no significant differen

SUBMITTER: Yang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8600661 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature