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Unit Learning Objectives:
Develop and explain a strategy for leadership given cultural and gender expectations and differences; Explain the concept of charismatic leadership, its potentials and limits; Describe how the media packages a person to be considered a hero, a leader, or both; Explain how theories of personality and society (as constructed by humans) can influence how a leader and followers interact, and provide support with examples; Detail the psychological and personality theories that could explain the behaviors of leaders such as Mother Jones, "mad messiahs," dictatorships, self-sacrificing leaders and heroes. List attributes of effective leaders.
Key Concepts:
Elms, Alan. (2004) Personality Theory: Theories I find most useful.
Erikson, E. Eight States of Human Development. McAdams, D. P. (2001) When Bad Things Turn Good and Good Things Turn Bad: Sequences of Redemption and Contamination in Life Narrative and Their Relation to Psychosocial Adaptation in Midlife Adults and in Students. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, April 2001, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 474-485(12).
McAdams, D. P. et al (1996) Themes of Agency and Communion in Significant Autobiographical Scenes. Journal of Personality, Jun96, Vol. 64 Issue 2, p339, 39p, 4 charts (large file -- use fast connection if possible)
McAdams, D. P. (1993). The stories we live by: Personal myths and the making of the self. New York: Morrow.
McAdams, D. P. (2001). The psychology of life stories. Review of General Psychology, 5(2), 100-122.
Tomkins, S. S. (1978). Script theory: Differential magnification of affects. In H. E. Howe, & R. A. Dienstbier (Eds.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (Vol. 26, pp. 201-236) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Tomkins, S. S. (1981). The quest for primary motives. Biography and autobiography of an idea. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 306-329.
Tomkins, S. S. (1987). Script theory. In J. Aronoff, A. I. Rabin et al. (Eds.), The emergence of personality: Michigan State University-Henry A. Murray lectures in personality (pp. 147-216). New York: Springer Publishing Co.
Tomkins, S. S. (1988). Scripting the macho man: Hypermasculine socialization and enculturation. Journal of Sex Research, Vol 25(1), Feb 1988. pp. 60-84. (large file -- need fast connection)
Personology and the narrative interpretation of lives. Barresi, John; Juckes, Tim J.; Journal of Personality, Vol 65(3), Sep 1997. pp. 693-719. (large file -- need fast connection)
Online Readings
Archetypes The Charismatic Leader "Saddam, Tell Me About Your Mum" -- interview with Dr. Jerrold Post about the psychology of dangerous leaders Tapping the Political Psyche: Interview with Jerrold Post Grassroots Leadership article. Examples: Catherine the Great Mother Teresa MalcolmX
Union -- a Lifetime of Labor History of Trade Unions in the U.S. Autobiography of Mother Jones
Anti-Heroes Franz Kafka --- The Trial: sparknotes guide review of film version (1993) Media Spin -- how does media spin affect how we see leaders? World events? How do we know when there is media manipulation?
Society of the Spectacle: Guy Debord Commodification of leadership? Comments on the Society of the Spectacle NATO and Psy-Ops -- an article on new approaches .. Are they being implemented now?
Gallery of Anti-heroes and Villains
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