The Illusion of Leadership: Misattribution of Cause in Coordination Games

By Roberto A. Weber, Colin F. Camerer, Yuval Rottenstreich, Marc Knez. 2001

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Subfields: Safety Research, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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SELECTIVE ATTENTION AND LEARNING (2014, background): “Malmendier and Shanthikumar (2007) find that large investors (e.g., pension funds) discount the recommendations of affiliated versus unaffiliated analysts. Small investors (e.g., individual investors), on the other hand, do not. This pattern of results is difficult to explain in a standard cost of i”
Bodies of Knowledge for Research in Behavioral Operations (2009, background): “For example, in Weber et al.’s (2001) study of coordination games, individuals blamed others for poor outcomes, instead of features of the situation like group size, complexity, or other barriers to performance.”
When and why? A critical survey on coordination failure in the laboratory (2007, unknown): “Most later studies followed that pattern, at least approximately (e.g., Weber et al., 2001).”
Coordination Neglect: How Lay Theories of Organizing Complicate Coordination in Organizations (2000, background): “In group situations, students typically want to simplify coordination by ‘ appointing a leader’ . Hierarchy appeals to our fascination with people as the source of action ( Weber, Rottenstreich, Camerer & Knez, 1999; Meindl, Erlich & Dukerich, 1985), but it is likely to be ineffective in complex, u”
Do voters demand responsive governments? Evidence from Indian disaster relief☆ (2012, background): “Weber et al. (2001), for example, demonstrates experimental subjects attribute success or failure in a coordination game to the quality of a randomly selected leader, rather than the exogenously imposed group size.”
When Does Charisma Matter for Top-Level Leaders? Effect of Attributional Ambiguity (2014, background): “Interestingly, organizational performance is attributed to leaders even when performance is known to depend on exogenous factors (Weber et al., 2001).”
Politicians’ Luck of the Draw: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery (2016, background): “Slightly more votes went to the Socialist Party (40 percent) than to the People ’ s Party (38 percent), consistent with the Socialist Party winning ﬁve out of the seven national elections in our sample.”
When Does Communication Improve Coordination (2010, methodology): “Battalio (1992), Roberto Weber et al. (2001) and Jordi Brandts and David J.”
Behavioral Spillovers in Coordination Games (2010, unknown): “…(Cooper et al., 1992; Blume and Ortmann, 2007; Brandts and Cooper, 2007; Cason et al., 2010), repetition and fixed-matching protocols (Clark and Sefton, 2001), the introduction of leaders (Weber et al., 2001), and the introduction of between-group competition (Myung, 2009; Sheremeta, 2011).”
Leaders as role models and ‘belief managers’ in social dilemmas (2018, background): “Of course, leaders are also important for coordinating behavior (e.g., Foss, 2001; Van Vugt and De Cremer, 2002 and Weber et al., 2001 ).”
Leadership, Beliefs and Coordination: An Explorative Discussion (2001, background): “However, the results of Weber et al. (1998) do indicate that communication is not necessarily effective across the board and that in some interaction situations, communicative leadership will have to be backed up with other means that can further build assurance (cf. Kotter 1996).”