How Power-Hungry Bosses Keep Their Power
Companies can take several steps to counter alpha-chimp mode. — Harvard Business Review
How to Handle a Bad Boss
Insecure leaders can sabotage productivity. — Kellogg Insight Podcast
What Kind of a Leader Are You?
The pros and cons of dominance versus prestige. — Psychology Today

Latest Research

Two Ways to Stay at the Top: Prestige and Dominance Are Both Viable Strategies for Gaining and Maintaining Social Rank Over Time

MacClanahan, K., Maner, J.K., & Cheng, J. (in press). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Childhood Illness as an Antecedent of Perceived Vulnerability to Disease

Makhanova, A., Shepherd, M., Plant, E.A., Gerend, M.A., & Maner, J.K. (in press). Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
A Qualitative Analysis of People’s Experiences With Weight-Based Discrimination

Gerend, M.A., Patel, S., Ott, N., Wetzel, K., Sutin, A.R., Terracciano, A., & Maner, J.K. (in press). Psychology and Health.

Announcements

Article
Power and Attraction to the Counternormative Aspects of Infidelity
J. Lammers and J. Maner (2016). The Journal of Sex Research 53 (1), 54-63.
Media
Why Some Powerful Men Like Getting Tied Up
Joris Lammers and Jon Maner report that among their Dutch respondents power increased infidelity.
Event
Are There Any Domain-General Emotions?
Invited talk at the annual meeting of the Motivation and Emotion Scientific Society