The New Psychology of Leadership

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Evolving leadership symposium

The Annual Symposium 2025 of Amsterdam Leadership Lab will be held on November 28th at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

science meets improv charisma training

Find out how you can develop your own inspiring leadership in an exciting weekend-long training on the 1st and 2nd of November!

Mindful leadership symposium

The Annual Symposium 2024 of Amsterdam Leadership Lab will be held on October 3rd at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Wie is de beste nieuwe minister-president van Nederland?

Online studie door het Amsterdam Leadership Lab, gehouden in aanloop naar de verkiezingen 2023.

Power dynamics in a changing workplace

The Annual Symposium 2023 of Amsterdam Leadership Lab will be held on September 15th at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

EU/Horizon programme for RESEARCH into the effects of digitized work on mental health

Mark van Vugt and Sanne Feenstra have—together with clinical psychologists at VU Amsterdam Marit Sijbrandij and Anke Witteveen—received a grant within the EU/Horizon programme of 1.2 million euros to study the effects of the digitized work environment on employee mental health.

New NWO-Open Competition grant on Gender ratios and Power Dynamics in Work Teams

Mark van Vugt (VU) and Wendy Andrews (VU), both associated with the Amsterdam Leadership Lab—together with a team consisting of researchers from the RUG (Nijstad, Hemelrijk) and UvA (Homan)—have received an award from NWO-Open Competition (approx. 800k euros) for their 5-year research project on Gender Ratio and Power Dynamics in Mixed Teams: Implications for Gender Inequality in Organizations. To increase the influence of women at the top of organizations, many countries, including the Netherlands, have introduced gender quotas. But we don't actually know whether changes in gender ratio (the numerical ratio of men to women) result in women having more influence in decision-making. The researchers examine this question from a new perspective in which they hypothesize that individuals (women and men) acquire influence dynamically by claiming and granting it. They examine how this dynamic is reflected in the relative number of promotions of women versus men to senior roles within organizations.

LEADERSHIP IN A HYBRID WORKPLACE

The Annual Symposium 2022 of Amsterdam Leadership Lab was successfully held on September 16th at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Art and science of leadership

Mark van Vugt, Killan Wawoe, and Wendy Andrews will present with talks at the Opening of the Academic Year 2022-2023 (The year's theme is “Art and Science of Leadership”).

Mark van Vugt will perform as a supervisor for the Honorary Doctorate awarded to Manfred Kets de Vries.

War and the Preference for a strong leader

Mark van Vugt published a blog in Psychology Today

Recent Development in Personality Assessment

A blog by Ranran Li

Het Corporate Brein

Het Corporate Brein van Kilian Wawoe is genomineerd voor management boek van het jaar.

Does an Imbalanced Sex Ratio Increase the Preference for a Strong Leader?

Poster Presentation at European Human Behavior & Evolution Association Conference 2022

An Evolutionary Threat Management Perspective

Xiaotian Sheng, Mark van Vugt, Wendy Andrews

Hybrid work: Curse or blessing?

A blog by Mark van Vugt

What animal leader are you?

Complete the quiz here.