Prosocial Attitudes and Future Military Leadership

• In Event: Theoretical Innovations in Public Administration

Brief Overview

We use an IAT and survey experiment to assess prosocial attitudes of future military officers. We find little association between the IAT and the response to training, but we do find the training effect to be conditional on the treatment received.

Authors

• Dallas Gilmore, United States Military Academy, West Point

• Scott Limbocker, United States Military Academy, West Point

• John D. Marvel, George Mason University

• William G. Resh, University of Southern California