Behavioural Research Lab Seminar: Doctor Angelique Fu

This Behavioural Research Lab seminar will be hosted by Doctor Angelique Fu, Lecturer in Organisational Psychology. An online option is also available, if you would like to join online please contact [email protected].

Leadership development is often shaped by the events individuals encounter, yet not all events contribute equally to leader identity formation and self-efficacy. The way events are processed, organized, and remembered plays a crucial role in determining their developmental impact. Drawing from psychology and leadership theory, I introduce the concept of Event Binding Capacity (EBC)—the ability to integrate leadership-relevant experiences into a cohesive memory that explains how experience is encoded around identity. I will present 1 pilot and 2 main studies (two cross-sectional study and one experiment) that proposed a novel method to measure EBC and its relationship with leader self-concepts. Results indicate that individuals with higher EBC, when exposed to events that are self-relevant and other-relevant, develop stronger leader identities and greater self-efficacy. Implications will be discussed.

Host or Publisher Behavioural Research Laboratory