Trust in a leader shifts based on which self-identity is activated

Evidence

As Chen and Brewer (2010) reasoned, people’s reactions toward their manager, such as trust in him or her, depends on whether people’s relational self or collective self is activated. People have both a supervisor–subordinate dyadic relationship with their manager as well as a leader–follower collective relationship with their manager. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2345