Ronald E. Riggio

     
Institution
Claremont McKenna College

Current Position
Professor/Director Kravis Leadership Institute

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from University of California, Riverside, 1981

Research Interests
Communication
Emotion
Group Processes
Interpersonal Processes
Nonverbal Behavior
Personality

Laboratory
Kravis Leadership Institute

Blog

Courses Taught
Leadership
Organizational Psychology

 
Ronald E. Riggio
Department of Psychology
Claremont McKenna College
850 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, California 91711
United States

Home Page
Phone: (909) 607-2997
Fax: (909) 607-5252

Vita

Ronald E. Riggio
Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D., is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology and Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. Professor Riggio is the author of over 100 books, book chapters, and research articles in the areas of leadership, assessment centers, organizational psychology and social psychology. His research work has included studies on the role of social skills and emotions in leadership potential and success, empathy, social intelligence, emotional skill and charisma.

Professor Riggio is an Associate Editor of The Leadership Quarterly and on the editorial boards of Leadership and Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. His recent books are Multiple Intelligences and Leadership and The Future of Leadership Development (co-edited with Susan Murphy; Erlbaum, 2002, 2003), Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (co-edited with Sarah Smith Orr; Jossey-Bass, 2004), Applications of Nonverbal Behavior (co-edited with Robert S. Feldman; Erlbaum, 2005), and Transformational Leadership (2nd ed., coauthored with Bernard M. Bass, 2006).

Dr. Riggio is the author of the Social Skills Inventory. For information about the SSI go to:

www.mindgarden.com


Books:

  • Bass, B. M., & Riggio, R. E. (2006). Transformational leadership (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Conger, J. A., & Riggio, R. E. (Eds.). (2007). The practice of leadership: Developing the next generation of leaders. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Riggio, R. E. (2008). Introduction to industrial/organizational psychology (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  • Riggio, R. E., & Feldman, R. S. (Eds.). (2005). Applications of nonverbal communication. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Riggio, R. E., Murphy, S. E., & Pirozzolo, F. J. (Eds.). (2002). Multiple intelligences and leadership. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Riggio, R. E., & Orr, S. S. (Eds.). (2004). Improving leadership in nonprofit organizations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Journal Articles:

  • Mio, J. S., Riggio, R. E., Levin, S., & Reese, R. (2005). Presidential leadership and charisma: The effects of metaphor. The Leadership Quarterly, 16, 287-294.
  • Riggio, R. E., & Lee, J. (2007). Emotional and interpersonal competencies and leader development. Human Resources Management Review, 17(4), 418-426.
  • Riggio, R. E., & Reichard, R. J. (2008). The emotional and social intelligences of effective leadership: An emotional and social skill approach. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 23(2), 169-185.
  • Riggio, R. E., Riggio, H. R., Salinas, C., & Cole, E. J. (2003). The role of social and emotional communication skills in leader emergence and effectiveness. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 7, 83-103.

Other Publications:

  • Riggio, R. E. (2006). Nonverbal skills and abilities. In V. Manusov & M. Patterson (Eds.), Handbook of nonverbal communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press.
  • Riggio, R. E. (2005). The Social Skills Inventory (SSI): Measuring nonverbal and social skills. In V. Manusov (Ed.), The sourcebook of nonverbal measures: Going beyond words (pp. 25-33). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Riggio, R. E. (2004). Charisma. In J. M. Burns, W. Goethals, & G. Sorenson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of leadership (Vol. 1, pp. 158-162). Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.
  • Riggio, R. E., & Riggio, H. R. (2005). Self-report measures of emotional and nonverbal expressiveness. In V. Manusov (Ed.), The sourcebook of nonverbal measures: Going beyond words (pp. 105-111). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Rubin, R. S., & Riggio, R. E. (2005). The role of emotional intelligence in ethical decision making at work. In R. Giacalone, C. L. Jurkiewicz, & C. Dunn (Eds.), Positive psychology in business ethics and corporate social responsibility (pp. 209-229). Information Age Publishers.

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