Benedikt Schulz received on July the 22nd the 2022 Peter Pribilla Award for the best master's thesis at the TUM School of Management. He is a master's student who wrote his thesis at our chair and in the Neurophysiological Leadership Lab, supervised by Leidy Cubillos-Pinilla. The thesis was building on the social identity approach and specifically investigated the influence of leaders’ language use on followers’ rule-breaking.
The thesis employed a computerized decision-making task and a questionnaire, whereas the local COVID 19 restrictions necessitated the transfer of the experiments from a supervised onsite laboratory setting to an unsupervised remote online setting. Benedikt was able to transfer the experiment to an online format. His work not only allows to continue research in the unprecedented times of the pandemic, but also opens new opportunities for future experiments, such as easy access to the investigation leadership identity on followers’ behaviour. We wish all the best to Benedikt Schulz.