Research Study

Cameron Anderson and Gavin Kilduff in 2009 formed groups of students to solve GMAT math problems. The group discussions towards the math problems were taped and the leader was identified by the researchers. Each group was then asked to identify the leaders. All the members in each group filled out questionnaires and it revealed that the leaders had the highest measure of dominance. It was discovered that the leaders were simply the ones who spoke first in the group and the groups' answers to the questions were always the first answers proposed by the leaders.

When a person is the first to initiate in a group, they sometimes end up doing most of the talking and overshadow other members to speak up, leaving them to agree with the dominant member even if they had other thoughts.

	Created by Tianne Barclay over 3 years ago

This point focuses on how a person becomes the leader in a group and how they dominate the others.