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  1. DATE: September 3, 2026 at 10:00AM
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    TITLE: Male politicians show a spike in care-oriented language during peak periods of war

    URL: psypost.org/male-politicians-s

    A recent analysis of parliamentary speeches during the Israel-Hamas war indicates that lawmakers who frequently express a moral duty to care for others are more likely to propose constructive, repair-oriented policies. The findings suggest that female politicians consistently use more care-based language, while male politicians tend to increase their expressions of care primarily during periods of peak conflict. The study was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

    “From a research perspective, we know surprisingly little about leadership when it arguably matters most — during high-strength events such as crises, let alone wars,” Alexander D. Stajkovic, a professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kayla S. Stajkovic of the University of California, Davis, told PsyPost. “Most leadership research has been conducted in relatively calm, low-stakes settings, yet crises are precisely when leaders face consequential decisions under remarkable uncertainty and human suffering.”

    In political settings, leaders navigate intense pressures, especially during times of crisis. The central focus of the new study is a concept called ethics of care leadership. This is a leadership approach where officials balance their traditional strategic duties with an active, publicly voiced concern for the welfare of those affected by their decisions. Rather than treating care as just a personality trait, this framework views caring for others as a moral obligation that can be expressed through everyday political language and debate.

    “Care for others and strength in responding to crises should not be treated as opposites in leadership,” the researchers explained. “Ethics of care leadership is not about softening or stepping back from the difficult responsibilities of the job — it is about carrying out those responsibilities while remaining attentive to the people affected by them.”

    Historically, political leadership during security threats has been associated with masculine traits like toughness and dominance. For example, a study covered by PsyPost in 2016 found that the public tends to prefer male over female leadership when worried about terrorism. However, expectations and approaches appear to be shifting.

    A 2020 study by the Stajkovics found that U.S. states led by female governors experienced fewer COVID-19 deaths early in the pandemic, with an analysis of public briefings showing that these women expressed more empathy and confidence than male governors. Interviews with members of European parliaments from a 2026 qualitative study also indicated that many lawmakers increasingly view cooperative, interpersonally sensitive behavior as a core part of good leadership, alongside traditional assertiveness.

    To understand how these dynamics play out in real-world crises, the authors examined how ethics of care leadership functions during high-strength events. These are situations that create sudden upheaval and carry massive consequences for human life, such as a war. Because high-strength events unfold in waves of varying intensity, they offer a way to track whether leaders maintain a consistent moral orientation or adapt their language as the crisis escalates and stabilizes.

    “Instead of treating ‘the war’ as one flat backdrop of a high-strength event, we coded each month as either a peak or sustained-high event-strength period,” the researchers noted. “That allowed us to examine not just ‘Does care matter during a crisis?’ but ‘Does care rise and fall as the crisis itself rises and falls?’ — a question that is difficult to answer without 16 months of continuous, real-world data.”

    For the study, the researchers analyzed the language used in the Israeli Knesset between October 2023 and January 2025. During this 16-month period, they examined roughly 5.2 million words spoken by 152 legislators across 140 plenary sessions, which are meetings attended by all members of the legislative body.

    “What makes the findings especially compelling is the setting,” the researchers pointed out. “These were not participants responding to a hypothetical leadership scenario. They were elected leaders speaking during an actual, ongoing war, tracked continuously over 16 months rather than at a single moment.”

    Using natural language processing software, a branch of artificial intelligence that allows computers to read and analyze human text, the team measured how often lawmakers used words associated with care and moral concern. They also extracted 4,143 distinct policy suggestions from the transcripts.

    A machine learning program, trained on examples coded by human reviewers, classified each of these policy suggestions as either constructive or combative. Constructive suggestions focused on repair, social inclusion, and long-term problem solving, while combative suggestions relied on blame, punishment, and escalation. The researchers also categorized each month of the conflict as either a period of peak intensity, marked by new escalations or major disruptions, or a sustained period, where the conflict continued without major novel developments.

    The analysis indicated that higher expressions of care-based leadership were associated with a greater likelihood of proposing constructive policies.

    “The effects are meaningful, but they should not be read as deterministic,” the Stajkovics noted, meaning one factor does not strictly guarantee an outcome. For every one-unit increase in a speaker’s care expression score, the odds of them making a constructive suggestion increased by 43 percent.

    The data also pointed to differences in how men and women communicated. Overall, female legislators expressed higher levels of care-based leadership than male legislators throughout the 16 months. This higher expression of care indirectly explained why women were more likely to offer constructive policy suggestions.

    However, the context of the event altered these patterns. During peak months of the conflict, expressions of care increased across the board. Notably, male politicians showed a much sharper increase in care-based language during these peak periods than female politicians did, narrowing the gender gap.

    “One might expect the most threatening periods of a war to push leaders toward greater toughness, aggression, or emotional restraint,” the researchers said. “Instead, we found that male leaders tended to increase their expressions of care more sharply during exactly those periods.”

    They explained that men face social pressure to appear tough, making it feel socially costly to openly express care. “But when suffering becomes visible and the stakes become extraordinarily high, the situation may provide a kind of ‘contextual license’ for men to express greater care,” they added. “In other words, extreme circumstances may temporarily loosen what society considers appropriate leadership behavior for men.”

    The researchers also grouped the politicians into three distinct profiles based on their language. One group consistently showed low care expression, another maintained a stable and moderate level of care expression, and a third group showed highly responsive care expression that spiked during peak crisis months. Politicians with a stable care profile were the most likely to continue offering constructive policy suggestions even during peak months, acting as a steadying force during escalations.

    A study covered by PsyPost in 2024 looked at whether female leaders causally reduced objective crisis outcomes like COVID-19 mortality rates, finding no statistical difference. The current research focuses on a different aspect of leadership, measuring gender differences in legislative speech and the expression of care during parliamentary debates rather than attempting to track objective crisis outcomes.

    As with all research, there are a few things to keep in mind when interpreting the results. Because the study relies on observational data from political speeches, it cannot establish that expressing care directly causes a politician to adopt constructive policies. Instead, it highlights a strong association between the two factors.

    “First, we would caution against reading this as showing that women are inherently more caring, or inherently ‘better’ leaders than men,” the researchers noted. “Women expressed more care on average, but men’s expression of care increased more substantially during peak-intensity periods. That is difficult to reconcile with a story in which care is simply a fixed trait of women.”

    “‘Constructive’ should not be read as meaning anti-war, politically liberal, or the objectively correct policy,” they clarified. “We are studying the form of the proposed solution, not making a judgment about who is right in the conflict.”

    It is also worth noting that what politicians suggest in a speech does not always translate into final legislative action. Parliamentary voting is often heavily influenced by party alliances and coalition requirements, meaning a leader’s verbal suggestions offer a window into their moral priorities in debate rather than a guarantee of how a law will be passed. The specific political and cultural context of the Israeli Knesset during a war also means these patterns might look different in other countries or during different types of emergencies.

    “An interesting next step would be to examine how broadly these patterns generalize beyond war,” the researchers said. “War is an extreme case, but the features that make it a powerful test — novelty, disruption, high stakes, and consequences for human welfare — also characterize events such as natural disasters, public-health emergencies, humanitarian crises, and organizational crises.”

    “If care were simply a luxury of leadership — something leaders could afford only when circumstances were easy — we would expect it to disappear as the crisis intensified,” they concluded. “We found close to the opposite. Expressions of care increased during peak periods, and leaders who expressed more care were more likely to put constructive alternatives into the conversation. Even in circumstances defined by conflict and polarization, escalation is not the only leadership response.”

    The study, “Ethics of Care Leadership Expressions During a High-Strength Event: A Gendered Analysis of Combative Versus Constructive Policy Suggestions During the Israel–Hamas War,” was authored by Alexander D. Stajkovic, Kayla S. Stajkovic, Jenny M. Hoobler, and Frederick P. Morgeson.

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  2. DATE: September 3, 2026 at 10:00AM
    SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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    TITLE: Male politicians show a spike in care-oriented language during peak periods of war

    URL: psypost.org/male-politicians-s

    A recent analysis of parliamentary speeches during the Israel-Hamas war indicates that lawmakers who frequently express a moral duty to care for others are more likely to propose constructive, repair-oriented policies. The findings suggest that female politicians consistently use more care-based language, while male politicians tend to increase their expressions of care primarily during periods of peak conflict. The study was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

    “From a research perspective, we know surprisingly little about leadership when it arguably matters most — during high-strength events such as crises, let alone wars,” Alexander D. Stajkovic, a professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kayla S. Stajkovic of the University of California, Davis, told PsyPost. “Most leadership research has been conducted in relatively calm, low-stakes settings, yet crises are precisely when leaders face consequential decisions under remarkable uncertainty and human suffering.”

    In political settings, leaders navigate intense pressures, especially during times of crisis. The central focus of the new study is a concept called ethics of care leadership. This is a leadership approach where officials balance their traditional strategic duties with an active, publicly voiced concern for the welfare of those affected by their decisions. Rather than treating care as just a personality trait, this framework views caring for others as a moral obligation that can be expressed through everyday political language and debate.

    “Care for others and strength in responding to crises should not be treated as opposites in leadership,” the researchers explained. “Ethics of care leadership is not about softening or stepping back from the difficult responsibilities of the job — it is about carrying out those responsibilities while remaining attentive to the people affected by them.”

    Historically, political leadership during security threats has been associated with masculine traits like toughness and dominance. For example, a study covered by PsyPost in 2016 found that the public tends to prefer male over female leadership when worried about terrorism. However, expectations and approaches appear to be shifting.

    A 2020 study by the Stajkovics found that U.S. states led by female governors experienced fewer COVID-19 deaths early in the pandemic, with an analysis of public briefings showing that these women expressed more empathy and confidence than male governors. Interviews with members of European parliaments from a 2026 qualitative study also indicated that many lawmakers increasingly view cooperative, interpersonally sensitive behavior as a core part of good leadership, alongside traditional assertiveness.

    To understand how these dynamics play out in real-world crises, the authors examined how ethics of care leadership functions during high-strength events. These are situations that create sudden upheaval and carry massive consequences for human life, such as a war. Because high-strength events unfold in waves of varying intensity, they offer a way to track whether leaders maintain a consistent moral orientation or adapt their language as the crisis escalates and stabilizes.

    “Instead of treating ‘the war’ as one flat backdrop of a high-strength event, we coded each month as either a peak or sustained-high event-strength period,” the researchers noted. “That allowed us to examine not just ‘Does care matter during a crisis?’ but ‘Does care rise and fall as the crisis itself rises and falls?’ — a question that is difficult to answer without 16 months of continuous, real-world data.”

    For the study, the researchers analyzed the language used in the Israeli Knesset between October 2023 and January 2025. During this 16-month period, they examined roughly 5.2 million words spoken by 152 legislators across 140 plenary sessions, which are meetings attended by all members of the legislative body.

    “What makes the findings especially compelling is the setting,” the researchers pointed out. “These were not participants responding to a hypothetical leadership scenario. They were elected leaders speaking during an actual, ongoing war, tracked continuously over 16 months rather than at a single moment.”

    Using natural language processing software, a branch of artificial intelligence that allows computers to read and analyze human text, the team measured how often lawmakers used words associated with care and moral concern. They also extracted 4,143 distinct policy suggestions from the transcripts.

    A machine learning program, trained on examples coded by human reviewers, classified each of these policy suggestions as either constructive or combative. Constructive suggestions focused on repair, social inclusion, and long-term problem solving, while combative suggestions relied on blame, punishment, and escalation. The researchers also categorized each month of the conflict as either a period of peak intensity, marked by new escalations or major disruptions, or a sustained period, where the conflict continued without major novel developments.

    The analysis indicated that higher expressions of care-based leadership were associated with a greater likelihood of proposing constructive policies.

    “The effects are meaningful, but they should not be read as deterministic,” the Stajkovics noted, meaning one factor does not strictly guarantee an outcome. For every one-unit increase in a speaker’s care expression score, the odds of them making a constructive suggestion increased by 43 percent.

    The data also pointed to differences in how men and women communicated. Overall, female legislators expressed higher levels of care-based leadership than male legislators throughout the 16 months. This higher expression of care indirectly explained why women were more likely to offer constructive policy suggestions.

    However, the context of the event altered these patterns. During peak months of the conflict, expressions of care increased across the board. Notably, male politicians showed a much sharper increase in care-based language during these peak periods than female politicians did, narrowing the gender gap.

    “One might expect the most threatening periods of a war to push leaders toward greater toughness, aggression, or emotional restraint,” the researchers said. “Instead, we found that male leaders tended to increase their expressions of care more sharply during exactly those periods.”

    They explained that men face social pressure to appear tough, making it feel socially costly to openly express care. “But when suffering becomes visible and the stakes become extraordinarily high, the situation may provide a kind of ‘contextual license’ for men to express greater care,” they added. “In other words, extreme circumstances may temporarily loosen what society considers appropriate leadership behavior for men.”

    The researchers also grouped the politicians into three distinct profiles based on their language. One group consistently showed low care expression, another maintained a stable and moderate level of care expression, and a third group showed highly responsive care expression that spiked during peak crisis months. Politicians with a stable care profile were the most likely to continue offering constructive policy suggestions even during peak months, acting as a steadying force during escalations.

    A study covered by PsyPost in 2024 looked at whether female leaders causally reduced objective crisis outcomes like COVID-19 mortality rates, finding no statistical difference. The current research focuses on a different aspect of leadership, measuring gender differences in legislative speech and the expression of care during parliamentary debates rather than attempting to track objective crisis outcomes.

    As with all research, there are a few things to keep in mind when interpreting the results. Because the study relies on observational data from political speeches, it cannot establish that expressing care directly causes a politician to adopt constructive policies. Instead, it highlights a strong association between the two factors.

    “First, we would caution against reading this as showing that women are inherently more caring, or inherently ‘better’ leaders than men,” the researchers noted. “Women expressed more care on average, but men’s expression of care increased more substantially during peak-intensity periods. That is difficult to reconcile with a story in which care is simply a fixed trait of women.”

    “‘Constructive’ should not be read as meaning anti-war, politically liberal, or the objectively correct policy,” they clarified. “We are studying the form of the proposed solution, not making a judgment about who is right in the conflict.”

    It is also worth noting that what politicians suggest in a speech does not always translate into final legislative action. Parliamentary voting is often heavily influenced by party alliances and coalition requirements, meaning a leader’s verbal suggestions offer a window into their moral priorities in debate rather than a guarantee of how a law will be passed. The specific political and cultural context of the Israeli Knesset during a war also means these patterns might look different in other countries or during different types of emergencies.

    “An interesting next step would be to examine how broadly these patterns generalize beyond war,” the researchers said. “War is an extreme case, but the features that make it a powerful test — novelty, disruption, high stakes, and consequences for human welfare — also characterize events such as natural disasters, public-health emergencies, humanitarian crises, and organizational crises.”

    “If care were simply a luxury of leadership — something leaders could afford only when circumstances were easy — we would expect it to disappear as the crisis intensified,” they concluded. “We found close to the opposite. Expressions of care increased during peak periods, and leaders who expressed more care were more likely to put constructive alternatives into the conversation. Even in circumstances defined by conflict and polarization, escalation is not the only leadership response.”

    The study, “Ethics of Care Leadership Expressions During a High-Strength Event: A Gendered Analysis of Combative Versus Constructive Policy Suggestions During the Israel–Hamas War,” was authored by Alexander D. Stajkovic, Kayla S. Stajkovic, Jenny M. Hoobler, and Frederick P. Morgeson.

    URL: psypost.org/male-politicians-s

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  3. DATE: September 3, 2026 at 10:00AM
    SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

    ** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
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    TITLE: Male politicians show a spike in care-oriented language during peak periods of war

    URL: psypost.org/male-politicians-s

    A recent analysis of parliamentary speeches during the Israel-Hamas war indicates that lawmakers who frequently express a moral duty to care for others are more likely to propose constructive, repair-oriented policies. The findings suggest that female politicians consistently use more care-based language, while male politicians tend to increase their expressions of care primarily during periods of peak conflict. The study was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

    “From a research perspective, we know surprisingly little about leadership when it arguably matters most — during high-strength events such as crises, let alone wars,” Alexander D. Stajkovic, a professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kayla S. Stajkovic of the University of California, Davis, told PsyPost. “Most leadership research has been conducted in relatively calm, low-stakes settings, yet crises are precisely when leaders face consequential decisions under remarkable uncertainty and human suffering.”

    In political settings, leaders navigate intense pressures, especially during times of crisis. The central focus of the new study is a concept called ethics of care leadership. This is a leadership approach where officials balance their traditional strategic duties with an active, publicly voiced concern for the welfare of those affected by their decisions. Rather than treating care as just a personality trait, this framework views caring for others as a moral obligation that can be expressed through everyday political language and debate.

    “Care for others and strength in responding to crises should not be treated as opposites in leadership,” the researchers explained. “Ethics of care leadership is not about softening or stepping back from the difficult responsibilities of the job — it is about carrying out those responsibilities while remaining attentive to the people affected by them.”

    Historically, political leadership during security threats has been associated with masculine traits like toughness and dominance. For example, a study covered by PsyPost in 2016 found that the public tends to prefer male over female leadership when worried about terrorism. However, expectations and approaches appear to be shifting.

    A 2020 study by the Stajkovics found that U.S. states led by female governors experienced fewer COVID-19 deaths early in the pandemic, with an analysis of public briefings showing that these women expressed more empathy and confidence than male governors. Interviews with members of European parliaments from a 2026 qualitative study also indicated that many lawmakers increasingly view cooperative, interpersonally sensitive behavior as a core part of good leadership, alongside traditional assertiveness.

    To understand how these dynamics play out in real-world crises, the authors examined how ethics of care leadership functions during high-strength events. These are situations that create sudden upheaval and carry massive consequences for human life, such as a war. Because high-strength events unfold in waves of varying intensity, they offer a way to track whether leaders maintain a consistent moral orientation or adapt their language as the crisis escalates and stabilizes.

    “Instead of treating ‘the war’ as one flat backdrop of a high-strength event, we coded each month as either a peak or sustained-high event-strength period,” the researchers noted. “That allowed us to examine not just ‘Does care matter during a crisis?’ but ‘Does care rise and fall as the crisis itself rises and falls?’ — a question that is difficult to answer without 16 months of continuous, real-world data.”

    For the study, the researchers analyzed the language used in the Israeli Knesset between October 2023 and January 2025. During this 16-month period, they examined roughly 5.2 million words spoken by 152 legislators across 140 plenary sessions, which are meetings attended by all members of the legislative body.

    “What makes the findings especially compelling is the setting,” the researchers pointed out. “These were not participants responding to a hypothetical leadership scenario. They were elected leaders speaking during an actual, ongoing war, tracked continuously over 16 months rather than at a single moment.”

    Using natural language processing software, a branch of artificial intelligence that allows computers to read and analyze human text, the team measured how often lawmakers used words associated with care and moral concern. They also extracted 4,143 distinct policy suggestions from the transcripts.

    A machine learning program, trained on examples coded by human reviewers, classified each of these policy suggestions as either constructive or combative. Constructive suggestions focused on repair, social inclusion, and long-term problem solving, while combative suggestions relied on blame, punishment, and escalation. The researchers also categorized each month of the conflict as either a period of peak intensity, marked by new escalations or major disruptions, or a sustained period, where the conflict continued without major novel developments.

    The analysis indicated that higher expressions of care-based leadership were associated with a greater likelihood of proposing constructive policies.

    “The effects are meaningful, but they should not be read as deterministic,” the Stajkovics noted, meaning one factor does not strictly guarantee an outcome. For every one-unit increase in a speaker’s care expression score, the odds of them making a constructive suggestion increased by 43 percent.

    The data also pointed to differences in how men and women communicated. Overall, female legislators expressed higher levels of care-based leadership than male legislators throughout the 16 months. This higher expression of care indirectly explained why women were more likely to offer constructive policy suggestions.

    However, the context of the event altered these patterns. During peak months of the conflict, expressions of care increased across the board. Notably, male politicians showed a much sharper increase in care-based language during these peak periods than female politicians did, narrowing the gender gap.

    “One might expect the most threatening periods of a war to push leaders toward greater toughness, aggression, or emotional restraint,” the researchers said. “Instead, we found that male leaders tended to increase their expressions of care more sharply during exactly those periods.”

    They explained that men face social pressure to appear tough, making it feel socially costly to openly express care. “But when suffering becomes visible and the stakes become extraordinarily high, the situation may provide a kind of ‘contextual license’ for men to express greater care,” they added. “In other words, extreme circumstances may temporarily loosen what society considers appropriate leadership behavior for men.”

    The researchers also grouped the politicians into three distinct profiles based on their language. One group consistently showed low care expression, another maintained a stable and moderate level of care expression, and a third group showed highly responsive care expression that spiked during peak crisis months. Politicians with a stable care profile were the most likely to continue offering constructive policy suggestions even during peak months, acting as a steadying force during escalations.

    A study covered by PsyPost in 2024 looked at whether female leaders causally reduced objective crisis outcomes like COVID-19 mortality rates, finding no statistical difference. The current research focuses on a different aspect of leadership, measuring gender differences in legislative speech and the expression of care during parliamentary debates rather than attempting to track objective crisis outcomes.

    As with all research, there are a few things to keep in mind when interpreting the results. Because the study relies on observational data from political speeches, it cannot establish that expressing care directly causes a politician to adopt constructive policies. Instead, it highlights a strong association between the two factors.

    “First, we would caution against reading this as showing that women are inherently more caring, or inherently ‘better’ leaders than men,” the researchers noted. “Women expressed more care on average, but men’s expression of care increased more substantially during peak-intensity periods. That is difficult to reconcile with a story in which care is simply a fixed trait of women.”

    “‘Constructive’ should not be read as meaning anti-war, politically liberal, or the objectively correct policy,” they clarified. “We are studying the form of the proposed solution, not making a judgment about who is right in the conflict.”

    It is also worth noting that what politicians suggest in a speech does not always translate into final legislative action. Parliamentary voting is often heavily influenced by party alliances and coalition requirements, meaning a leader’s verbal suggestions offer a window into their moral priorities in debate rather than a guarantee of how a law will be passed. The specific political and cultural context of the Israeli Knesset during a war also means these patterns might look different in other countries or during different types of emergencies.

    “An interesting next step would be to examine how broadly these patterns generalize beyond war,” the researchers said. “War is an extreme case, but the features that make it a powerful test — novelty, disruption, high stakes, and consequences for human welfare — also characterize events such as natural disasters, public-health emergencies, humanitarian crises, and organizational crises.”

    “If care were simply a luxury of leadership — something leaders could afford only when circumstances were easy — we would expect it to disappear as the crisis intensified,” they concluded. “We found close to the opposite. Expressions of care increased during peak periods, and leaders who expressed more care were more likely to put constructive alternatives into the conversation. Even in circumstances defined by conflict and polarization, escalation is not the only leadership response.”

    The study, “Ethics of Care Leadership Expressions During a High-Strength Event: A Gendered Analysis of Combative Versus Constructive Policy Suggestions During the Israel–Hamas War,” was authored by Alexander D. Stajkovic, Kayla S. Stajkovic, Jenny M. Hoobler, and Frederick P. Morgeson.

    URL: psypost.org/male-politicians-s

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