{"id":246031,"date":"2026-10-27T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/human-and-chimpanzee-leaders-share-a-taste-for-risk"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:10:18","slug":"human-and-chimpanzee-leaders-share-a-taste-for-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/human-and-chimpanzee-leaders-share-a-taste-for-risk","title":{"rendered":"Human and chimpanzee leaders share a taste for risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People in leadership positions tend to rate themselves as more risk-loving than those without leadership responsibilities\u2014and a similar pattern emerges among chimpanzees: High-ranking individuals are perceived as more risk-taking than their lower-ranking peers. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Dresden University of Technology, and the University of Portsmouth, <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S1048984326000512\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in The Leadership Quarterly.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the findings compelling is that the link between leadership and risk-taking emerges in both humans and chimpanzees. As both species share a common ancestor, this relationship may have deep evolutionary roots. The study thus provides new evidence that traits associated with leadership and social influence are not shaped exclusively by modern social structures but may already have played a role in early forms of social coexistence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in leadership positions tend to rate themselves as more risk-loving than those without leadership responsibilities\u2014and a similar pattern emerges among chimpanzees: High-ranking individuals are perceived as more risk-taking than their lower-ranking peers. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Dresden University of Technology, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}