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Simon Liegl, MSc

Research Assistant / PhD Student
Entrepreneurship & Leadership
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Emotional Leader Signalling in a Digital Age
FFF-Förderprojekt, March 2022 until February 2023 (finished)

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, advancing globalization and digitalization caused communication in organizations to shift from face-to-face interactions onto digital mediums, especially e-mail and ... more ...

Affective Signalling in the Digital Workplace
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2022 until December 2023

Digitalization affected our globalized world for quite some time, posing increasingly wide-ranging affordances to individuals and organizations alike. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted this ... more ...

Defining the Ill-defined - Exploring the Behavioural Underpinnings of Charismatic Leadership
PhD-Thesis, since February 2020

This dissertation project takes up on a current approach to define charisma as a set of observable behaviours intended to communicate leadership qualities and aims to advance current research in this ... more ...

Developing leaders for a complex world: The emergence and effects of charismatic leadership and organizational unlearning
FFF-Förderprojekt, March 2019 until December 2021 (finished)

Effective leadership allows companies to navigate the uncertainties inherent in rapidly changing markets. These challenges are usually met by high adaptability, which relies on a managerial force ... more ...

  • Liegl, S., & Furtner, M. (2024). Emotional leader communication in the digital age: An experimental investigation on the role of emoji. Computers in Human Behavior, 154, 108148. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 2)

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  • Liegl, S., & Furtner, M. (2023). Introverted and yet effective? A faceted approach to the relationship between leadership and extraversion. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1185271.

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  • Maran, T., Liegl, S., Furtner, M., & Ravet-Brown, T. (2023). How charisma shapes a leader’s gaze behavior: An eye-tracking study. Internation Journal of Psychology, 58(S1), 683. (ABS_2021: 1)

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  • Liegl, S., Maran, T., Moder, S., & Furtner, M. (2023). Sometimes you actually are what your wear: How attire shapes followers' perceptions of their leader. International Journal of Psychology, 58(S1), 683-684. (ABS_2021: 1)

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  • Maran, T. K., Liegl, S., Davila, A., Moder, S., Kraus, S., & Mahto, R. V. (2022). Who fits into the digital workplace? Mapping digital self-efficacy and agility onto psychological traits. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 175(2), 121352. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 3; VHB_3: B)

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  • Hoffmann, A., Maran, T., Grünbaum, T., Liegl, S., Lobis, U., & Sachse, P. (2022). A psychophysiological investigation of mourning: There are two sides to the story. Motivation and Emotion. (ABDC_2022: A)

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  • Maran, T., Furtner, M., Liegl, S., Ravet-Brown, T., Haraped, L., & Sachse, P. (2021). Visual attention in real-world conversation: Gaze patterns are modulated by communication and group size. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 70(4), 1602-1627. (ABDC_2022: A; VHB_3: B)

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  • Maran, T., Liegl, S., Moder, S., Kraus, S., & Furtner, M. (2021). Clothes make the leader! How leaders can use attire to impact followers' perceptions of charisma and approval. Journal of Business Research, 124(1), 86-99. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 3; VHB_3: B)

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  • Maran, T., Moder, S., Furtner, M., Ravet-Brown, T., & Liegl, S. (2020). From self-report to behavior: Mapping charisma onto naturalistic gaze patterns. Personality and Individual Differences, 152. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 3)

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  • Maran, T., Furtner, M., Kraus, S., Liegl, S., & Jones, P. (2019). Entrepreneurial Leadership: An Experimental Approach Investigating the Influence of Eye Contact on Motivation. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 29(3). (ABDC_2022: C; VHB_3: C)

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  • Maran, T., Furtner, M., Liegl, S., Kraus, S., & Sachse, P. (2019). In the eye of a leader: eye-directed gazing shapes perceptions of leaders' charisma. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(6). (ABDC_2022: A*; ABS_2021: 4; VHB_3: A)

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  • Liegl, S., Furtner, M., & Auckenthaler, S. (2023). Effects of Quasi-Nonverbal Leader Communication on Impression Formation. Presented at the 21st EAWOP Conference, Katowice, Poland.

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  • Herrmann-Romero, M., Liegl, S., Angerer M., & Stöckl, T. (2022). Golden Eye - How Traders Screen Information. Presented at the World Finance, Turin, Italy.

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  • Herrmann-Romero, M., Liegl, S., Angerer M., & Stöckl, T. (2022). Golden Eye - How Traders Screen Information. Presented at the 37. AWG, Klagenfurt, Austria.

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  • Liegl, S., & Furtner, M. (2022). Quasi-Nonverbal Behaviors in the Digital Age: Who Even Uses Emoji. Presented at the 17th European Congress of Psychology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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  • Liegl, S., Maran, T., Furtner, M., & Sachse, P. (2021). Persuasive eyes - How negotiation success shapes eye-directed gaze behavior. Presented at the 63rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Ulm, Germany.

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  • Liegl, S., Grünbaum, T., Maran, T., Manno, S., & Sachse, P. (2020). Heartfelt grief: A within-subject experiment measuring heart rate variability. Presented at the 62nd Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TEAP), Jena, Deutschland.

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  • Löffler, F., Haraped, L., Maran, T., Liegl, S., Mix, N., & Sachse, P. (2020). Personality traits modulate gaze behavior towards dynamic stimuli high in social information. Presented at the 62nd Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TEAP 2020), Jena, Deutschland.

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  • Maran, T., Liegl, S., Furtner, M. R., Grünbaum, T., Bergau, N., Sachse, P., & Dietz, C. (2019). Abolished associative learning in states of lust. Presented at the 61st Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TEAP 2019), London, England.

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  • Haraped, L., Maran, T., Liegl, S., Campidell, T., Furtner, M. R., & Sachse, P. (2019). Autistic traits modulate social attention in dynamic scenes: An eye-tracking study. Presented at the 16th European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2019), Moscow.

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  • Liegl, S., Campidell, T., Maran, T., Furtner, M., Haraped, L., & Sachse Pierre. (2019). Leadership Practice shapes social gaze during negotiation. Presented at the 16th European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2019), Moscow, Russia.

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  • Maran, T., Ravet-Brown, T., Liegl, S., Campidell, T., Haraped, L., Sachse, P., & Furtner, M. R. (2019). Increased working memory capacity prevents financial losses caused by model-free decision making. Presented at the 16th European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2019), Moscow, Russia.

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  • Liegl, S., Haraped, L., Sachse, P., & Maran, T. (2018). Lack of sleep hampers cognitive control: reduced proactive control after sleep restriction. Presented at the 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TEAP 2018), Marburg, Germany.

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  • Maran, T., Liegl, S., Haraped, L., & Sachse, P. (2018). Impaired implicit acquisition of spatial context information during increased arousal. Presented at the 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TEAP 2018), Marburg, Germany.

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  • Maran, T., Liegl, S., Autengruber, G., Weber, B., Hauser, G., Sachse, P., Furtner, M., & Haraped, L. (2018). Psychophysiological arousal reveals the occurrence of memory intrusions. Presented at the 11th FENS - Forum of Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany.

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  • Maran, T., Liegl, S., Haraped, L., Furtner, M. R., & Sachse, P. (2018). The effects of charisma and leadership skills on social gaze behavior. Presented at the European Summer School on Eye Movements (ESSEM), Bonn, Germany.

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  • Maran, T., Liegl, S., Autengruber, G., Haraped, L., & Sachse, P. (2018). Pupil-linked arousal reveals the occurrence of unwanted intrusions. Presented at the European Summer School on Eye Movements (ESSEM), Bonn.

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  • Maran, T., Liegl, S., Haraped, L., Furtner, M., & Sachse, P. (2018). Urban upbringing predicts naturalistic social attention in everyday life: A field study using mobile eye tracking. Presented at the European Summer School on Eye Movements (ESSEM), Bonn.

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  • Maran, T., Furtner, M., Haraped, L., Liegl, S., Hutzenthaler, N., & Sachse, P. (2017). The impact of experimental sleep deprivation on reflexivity. Presented at the 15th European Congress of Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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  • Maran, T., Hagleitner, W., Groining, M., Sting, S., & Liegl, S. (2017). The Austrian Care Leaver Study: What factors contribute to socioeconomic outcomes, physical and mental health in young people leaving residential care?. Presented at the 15th European Congress of Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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