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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Soc. Psychol.
Sec. Intergroup Relations and Group Processes
Volume 2 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/frsps.2024.1425868

EDUCATION, EXPERTISE, AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE 1

Provisionally accepted
Erjona Manushi Sundic Erjona Manushi Sundic 1Gabriel Mugny Gabriel Mugny 2Alain Quiamzade Alain Quiamzade 2Fabrizio Butera Fabrizio Butera 1*
  • 1 Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2 University of Geneva, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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    This study investigates how socialization in two different educational environments (during and after the communist regime) affects the level of social influence (manifest vs. latent) of a director on employees. We compared employees educated during and after the communist regime and measured the influence of a message delivered in an authoritarian vs. democratic style, by a director of a company labelled as expert vs. non-expert. Considering level of influence, results showed that employees educated during the communist regime were more influenced at both the latent and manifest level by an authoritarian expert rather than a democratic one, whereas employees educated after the communist regime were influenced only at a latent level by a democratic expert rather than an authoritarian one. No manifest influence appeared on employees educated after the communist regime independently from the leadership style.

    Keywords: Education, Expert power, Leadership style, social influence, Socialisation

    Received: 08 May 2024; Accepted: 19 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Manushi Sundic, Mugny, Quiamzade and Butera. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Fabrizio Butera, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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