Charisma Is Contagious: The Effect of Leaders’ Charisma on Observers’ Affect1

By P. D. Cherulnik, Kristin Donley, Tay Sha R. Wiewel, Susan R. Miller. 2001

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Motivation to Lead, Motivation to Follow: The Role of the Self-Regulatory Focus in Leadership Processes (2007, background): “Several recent empirical studies have examined the mood contagion process in workgroups, documenting the spread of emotions from leaders to followers and among group members (e.g., Barsade, 2002; Cherulnik et al., 2001).”
Elected in 100 milliseconds: Appearance-Based Trait Inferences and Voting (2010, background): “Cherulnik et al. (2001) found that audience members were more likely to imitate the nonverbal behaviors of highly charismatic political candidates (who exhibited more smiling and visual attention to the audience) than to less charismatic candidates.”
Explaining Knowledge Sharing (2006, background): “Thus, this type of team communication may be contagious, inspiring a similar style in others (Cherulnik et al., 2001).”
Emotional contagion in organizational life (2018, background): “among users is low [which is not surprising as, with the exception of Christakis and Fowler’s (2013), most emotional contagion studies have found low or no contagiousness of sadness, (e.”
Presidential leadership and charisma: The effects of metaphor (2005, background): “Of course, metaphor is only one rhetorical tool, and as noted earlier, much of a leader’s ability to inspire may involve the nonverbal expressive style that is typically associated with charismatic leaders (e.g., Cherulnik et al., 2001; Howell & Frost, 1989; Riggio, 1987, 1998).”