On the road to power: Showing benevolence and integrity fuels power granting.

= 1,151; Western samples; 2018-2021) supported this interplay of benevolence and integrity, highlighting when and why people willingly hand over power to someone. These findings extend prior approaches to leader emergence through a novel focus on the interplay between two central ingredients to power granting, which reveals that benevolence and integrity by themselves are not sufficient. Rather, the road to power is paved with benevolent intentions carried out with integrity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).