“…Indeed, prior work has suggested that individuals with lower need for cognition are more likely to focus on extraneous, peripheral information during interactions (e.g., Cacioppo et al., 1986; Ras et al., 2015; Ting, 2012), which suggests that leaders with lower need for cognition may be more readily distracted by the information that is being conveyed and its meaning when they are the targets of venting receipt. Thus, although organizational scholars and practitioners have described listening and providing support as a valued and necessary daily leader activity (e.g., Drucker, 2004; Kock, Mayfield, Mayfield, Sexton, & De La Garza, 2019; Lloyd, Boer, Keller, & Voelpel, 2015), our findings suggest that doing so can be challenging for certain leaders.…”