Towards effective leadership in organizations: psychophysiological studies of the influence of organization hierarchy on gaze-following and emotional contagion

The thesis addressed a comparatively scarcely investigated but central topic in the organizational neuroscience, namely leadership in work organizations. We started by taking into account to potential differences between leaders and followers regarding social attention and way of feeling emotions or managing them in terms of their physiological responses to public speaking. We paid special attention to differences related to transformational/prestige or transactional/dominant leadership style under the assumption that transformational leader can activate their emotional intelligence and better emotion management to modulate the communication with followers