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Higher Social Class Predicts Higher Leadership Ambition

2016· article· en· W3091851181 on OpenAlexaff
Ray Fang, Stéphane Côté

Bibliographic record

VenueAcademy of Management Proceedings · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicCultural Differences and Values
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrestigePhenomenonSocial classClass (philosophy)Social psychologyUpper classAssociation (psychology)Power (physics)Life chancesControl (management)PsychologyUpper echelonsSociologyPolitical scienceEconomicsManagementSocial scienceEpistemologyLaw

Abstract

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There is a disproportionately high amount of people from upper class families in positions of power and prestige (Keller & Zavalloni, 1964; Carnes, 2012). The current dominant explanation for this phenomenon proposed by sociologists and economists is that institutional barriers block lower class efforts for upward mobility. Here we provide a complementary psychological explanation for this phenomenon - we propose that lower class individuals have lower levels of leadership ambition because they have a lower desire for control, compared to upper class individuals. In Study 1, we found a positive association between social class and leadership ambition. In Study 2, we found that one’s desire to control events in one’s life mediates the positive association between social class and leadership ambition. In Study 3, we found a positive association between social class and leadership ambition when a leadership role involving control over employees was described, but no association when a leadership role lacking control was described, providing additional evidence that the desire for control explains why lower class individuals have less leadership ambition than upper class individuals. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.046

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.199
GPT teacher head0.356
Teacher spread0.157 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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