Human Nature

🧪 'The Multi-Capital Leadership theory' explains how leader emergence and effectiveness depend on different forms of capital—material, social, somatic, and neural across diverse human societies. bit.ly/4951S3a @edhagen.net @zhgarfield.com #LeadSciSky #HBES

The Multi-Capital Leadership Theory - Human Nature Human leadership and followership take many forms, shaped by the social, economic, political, and cultural contexts of our groups and societies. Underlying this complexity, we argue, are key elements of human social psychology regarding social comparison and the resolution of coordination and collective action problems. The Multi-Capital Leadership (MCL) theory posits that leader emergence and effectiveness depend on perceptions of individuals’ abilities to provide benefits or impose costs in solving challenges of group living, through the deployment of different forms of capital: material, social, somatic (e.g., physical formidability, height, immune functionality), and neural (e.g., knowledge, intelligence, personality, supernatural abilities). We integrate this framework with a review of leadership across human societies, including in non-state and non-industrial contexts, and with novel comparative analyses of ethnographic data. This synthesis highlights how context-specific demands for coordination and collective action, and the accuracy of social comparison, shape the structure and dynamics of leadership and followership across cultures.

>The Multi-Capital Leadership theory explains why #leadership emerges and why it varies among human societies and throughout individual life histories.

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The Many Faces of Leadership What makes someone a leader isn’t just strength or charisma. It’s the mix of resources they bring—and how those align with what their group needs.

"Gandalf and Saruman are similarly framed as opposites..Yet both share rare knowledge and supernatural power...Gandalf built trust across hobbits, men, elves, and dwarves. Saruman..built an alliance with & grew increasingly dependent on Sauron."

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Leaders for the World We Think We Live In Why do we trust steady hands in some contexts and risk-takers in others? Evolutionary theory reveals how environments shape our shifting choices of leaders.

Some thoughts on how preferences for #leaders change with our environments:

Leaders for the World We Think We Live In | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...

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Quote: " In sum, leader-directed teaching of opaque cooperative norms would be a mutually beneficial strategy, where the costs incurred by influential teachers are, at least partly, outweighed by the long-term benefits of cultivating cooperation within the group."

Mosaic plot illustrating the relationship between evidence for teaching and non-teaching social learning, based on a binary researcher-coded measure of teaching. "Although instrumental cultural transmission frequently occurs through both teaching and non-teaching social learning, opaque cultural information is predominantly transmitted through teaching, with relatively fewer instances of non-teaching social learning."

With @sheinalew.bsky.social: Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies, in @naturecomms.bsky.social

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ur theory proposes that when there were asymmetries in information or computational resources, many of the diverse cognitive adaptations that evolved to benefit the individual could have been deployed as computational services to benefit others in exchange for various payments, thereby helping subsidize the large fixed energetic cost of maintaining the brain

A chilly morning in Vancouver in 2016 we first talked about motherhood as a force in the evolution of prestige & leadership.

The Computational Services model weaves together 10+ years of thinking on..a lot

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