Psychologists Nir Halevy, Yair Berson, and Adam Galinsky set out to find the answer in a series of new studies, pitting one style of leadership against the other to see which style is generally preferred, and why.

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Psychologists, such as Brian Little of Carleton University, have studied goal setting, categorizing the kinds of goals people set, and trying to determine which factors make a goal more reachable.

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