The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire Form XII is frequently used in leadership research. In this laboratory study 126 college students were assigned to two groups. The task involved describing an ideal leader using the questionnaire and an open-ended response form. One group completed the questionnaire first, the other group used the open-response form first. Analysis indicated that the questionnaire shows the priming effect, i.e., an increasing salience of an item used on a survey.
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