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Leaders’ Mind Types and
Their Relations to Preferred
Leadership Styles
Jolanta Babiak and Czeslaw S. Nosal
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN LEADERSHIP RESEARCH
In management psychology research, cognitive attributes of leaders have probably been the most
frequently studied traits within the individual differences paradigm (Zaccaro, Kemp, and Bader
2004). Although trait theories have been virtually neglected for many decades (see Bass 1990 for
review), the newest evidence supports the notion that, among numerous variables inuencing leader-
ship processes, broadly dened personality and cognitive traits as well as leadership behaviors have
great impact ...