The Authenticity Challenge: How a Value Affirmation Exercise Can Engender Authentic Leadership
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Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a brief and effective way to increase leader’s perceived authenticity in the form of a values affirmation exercise. Personal values reflect what people consider as most important and ideal (Rokeach, 1973). As a result, values affirmation exercise where people are reminded of their values activates their ideal selves. In Experiment 1, we show that values affirmation induces the feeling of authenticity by activating the ideal-self. In Experiment 2, we show that values affirmation not only induces the feeling of authenticity but also help individuals convey felt authenticity to others and be perceived as authentic. In a leader- follower communication, we find that leaders were perceived as more authentic by audience members when they thought about their personal values prior to engaging in communication with them. Additionally, we examine the role of leader’s communication skills in gaining perceived authenticity and find that leaders with good communication skills are viewed as more authentic. We also find that after values affirmation, leaders are viewed as authentic even when they lack good communication skills.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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