Leaders of war take many forms

In our exploration of the leadership and intergroup conflict literature, we identified two distinct leadership styles: "heroic" and "exploitative". Our theoretical model intriguingly supports both leadership styles, showcasing how simply altering factors like group size and migration rates can influence the emergence of one style over the other.

Engaging in this research was our lockdown project, a thouroughly enjoyable window of sanity for extraverts like Kingsley (joint first author) and I. Now published in Phil Trans B, check it out! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2021.0140#:~:text=We%20found%20that%20small%20group,emergence%20of%20'heroic'%20leaders.