THE EFFECTS OF VARYING COMBINATIONS AUTHORITARIAN AND EQUALITARIAN LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS.

The article provides information on a study that investigated a specific case of the interaction between leaders' and followers' personalities in the determination of behavior in groups. It describes the results of a study of the behavior of authoritarian and equalitarian personalities in small groups. The California F scale was used to measure authoritarian personality. It reveals the results of the study. It discusses the implications of these results for an interaction theory of leadership, and for the prediction of behavior from personality measures of individuals.