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Leadership and Learning: The College President as Intuitive Scientist
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 9, Number 4, Summer 1986
- pp. 381-395
- 10.1353/rhe.1986.0016
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The cognitive processes through which college presidents make inferences and learn may systematically bias their judgments under uncertain conditions. Data collected from a sample of 252 college presidents indicate that these cognitive biases may cause them to overestimate their own effectiveness as campus leaders. The data support the idea that “leadership” is at least in part a social attribution used both by leaders and by followers to explain unusual organizational processes.