This research is a pre-registered replication of Rosette, Leonardelli, and Phillips' (2008) seminal work in leadership categorization theory. Their work established race as a component to the business leader prototype and found evidence that when a leader was given credit for successful organizational performance, White leaders were evaluated more favorably than non-White leaders. As leadership exemplars are evolving, however, a need to reexamine these relationships has emerged. Results from our replications of their first and third studies showed minimal support for the argument that being White is a component of the business leader prototype. Additionally, across six separate studies, we found no conditions in which White leaders received more favorable evaluations than their non-White counterparts. Contrary to our expectations, we found that non-White leaders received marginally more favorable ratings than White leaders in four of our studies.

这项研究是 Rosette、Leonardelli 和 Phillips (2008) 在领导力分类理论方面的开创性工作的预注册复制。他们的工作将种族作为企业领导者原型的一个组成部分，并发现证据表明，当领导者因成功的组织绩效而获得赞誉时，白人领导者会比非白人领导者获得更有利的评价。然而，随着领导典范的不断发展，重新审视这些关系的必要性已经出现。我们对他们的第一个和第三个研究的重复结果显示，对于“白人是商业领袖原型的一个组成部分”这一论点的支持很少。此外，在六项独立的研究中，我们发现白人领导人没有比非白人领导人获得更有利的评价。与我们的预期相反，