Social psychology long treated claims of innate leadership as refuted errors

Evidence

The news story stated at one point, “Among traits found most strongly determined by heredity were leadership and, surprisingly, traditionalism or obedience to authority.” The part about leadership harkened back to Aristotle’s view that a few of us are born for greatness, while most of us are born to be followers. Which social psychology texts had long treated the same way a wolf treats a bush he wants to use as a territorial marker. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 892