ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the basic facts of dominance and leadership in animal and the human societies. The social origins of dominance are clearly brought out in a number of careful observations of its emergence among young children. Personal-social conditioning seems to be more important than cultural conditioning in much of this development. Dominance always has a counterpart in the submission of others. It is also evident that dominance has some association with that larger response system which we term aggression. The psychological discussion of leadership and headship has fluctuated between the specific traits of the leader and his bio psychological type. A number of studies of the relation between educational attainment and leadership have been made in high schools and colleges, and it might be expected that there would be a positive correlation between leadership and scholarship. Lewin, Lippitt, and White found more hostility between members in the group under autocratic leadership than in the democratic and laissez-faire ones.
