“…For example, extraversion was positively associated with status in a consulting firm (which primarily encounters team-oriented tasks), whereas conscientiousness was positively associated with status in an engineering department (less team-oriented but more technical tasks; Anderson et al, 2008). Likewise, agreeableness was positively associated with status in previously unacquainted student groups after an affiliative group task but not after a competitive group task (Lawless DesJardins et al, 2017). Furthermore, research suggests that people tend to prefer dominant leaders more in threatening situations such as terrorist attacks, intergroup conflicts, or (economic) uncertainty than in nonthreatening situations because a dominant leader is seen as a tool to tackle the threat (e.g., Bøggild & Laustsen, 2016;Kakkar & Sivanathan, 2017;Laustsen & Petersen, 2017;Nevicka et al, 2013;Paunonen et al, 2006).…”