| Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 4, Iss. 1, Jan, 2000, pp. 113-119 @2000 Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences Self-Organization and Leadership Emergence: A Cross-Cultural Replication Abstract: Project examined the cross-cultural generalizability of a model for leadership emergence based on the rugged landscape self-organization and the swallowtail catastrophe. Twelve groups of eight Chilean university students played the Island Commission game and rated each other on leadership behavior at the end of the one-hour activity. Analysis confirmed the replication of dynamical structure and critical points obtained previously from a U.S. sample. Keywords: emergence, leadership, rugged landscape, self-organization, swallowtail catastrophe, South America |