John Antonakis

Johnson and Wales University

charismatic leadership in particular.^[1][2] He has communicated his work on leadership to a wide audiences,^[3][4] including work in applied statistics on endogeneity and causality,^[5] and general problems in science.^[6] His article "Predicting Elections: Child's Play"^[7] published in the prestigious journal Science engendered a lot of interest because it showed that little children were able to predict results of election outcomes merely by rating the faces of the politician candidates; refer to his podcast for further information.^[8] Lately, he has been working with Philippe Jacquart in predicting the U.S. presidential elections;^[9] their model predicted that Obama would win (refer to Antonakis's YouTube video on the Obama-Romney election race^[10]). He predicted a victory for Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections.^[11][12][13] A summary of his latest work on charisma is available in a recent talk he gave at TEDx.^[14]

consistent estimators and causally identified models using econometrics and structural equation modeling techniques, he has also written critiques of Partial least squares path modeling, which he states should be abandoned.^[16] He has also shown that, because of endogeneity issues, much of the research done in management and applied psychology is devoid of causal interpretation.^{[17][18][19][20]}