סמינר בהתנהגות ארגונית

Dr. Maxim Milyavsky 

Would Napoleon be perceived as less arrogant if he had won in Waterloo? Observed since ancient times, arrogance has nonetheless been subject to little systematic research. How do people make judgments of arrogance? Is arrogance an epistemic or an interpersonal phenomenon? To answer these and other questions, I investigated people’s naïve theories of arrogance judgments, as well as their actual judgments. In a series of five studies, participants were asked to judge dismissive behaviors in which protagonists’ relative expertise, interpersonal manner, and behavior outcomes were manipulated. The results shed light on the interplay between epistemic and the interpersonal considerations in arrogance judgments, and reveal some insightful discrepancies between how people think they make arrogance judgments and how they actually do.