| Charisma as signal: An evolutionary perspective on charismatic leadership A Grabo, BR Spisak, M van Vugt The Leadership Quarterly 28 (4), 473-485, 2017 | 224 | 2017 |
| Sex differences in the emergence of leadership during competitions within and between groups M Van Vugt, BR Spisak Psychological science 19 (9), 854-858, 2008 | 217 | 2008 |
| Facing the situation: Testing a biosocial contingency model of leadership in intergroup relations using masculine and feminine faces BR Spisak, AC Homan, A Grabo, M Van Vugt The Leadership Quarterly 23 (2), 273-280, 2012 | 192 | 2012 |
| Warriors and peacekeepers: Testing a biosocial implicit leadership hypothesis of intergroup relations using masculine and feminine faces BR Spisak, PH Dekker, M Krüger, M Van Vugt PloS one 7 (1), e30399, 2012 | 169 | 2012 |
| The age of exploration and exploitation: Younger-looking leaders endorsed for change and older-looking leaders endorsed for stability BR Spisak, AE Grabo, RD Arvey, M Van Vugt The Leadership Quarterly 25 (5), 805-816, 2014 | 136 | 2014 |
| Niche construction and the evolution of leadership BR Spisak, MJ O'Brien, N Nicholson, M Van Vugt Academy of Management Review 40 (2), 291-306, 2015 | 133 | 2015 |
| Leadership in organizations: An evolutionary perspective BR Spisak, N Nicholson, M van Vugt Evolutionary psychology in the business sciences, 165-190, 2011 | 66 | 2011 |
| A face for all seasons: Searching for context-specific leadership traits and discovering a general preference for perceived health BR Spisak, NM Blaker, CE Lefevre, FR Moore, KFB Krebbers Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8, 792, 2014 | 60 | 2014 |
| The General Age of Leadership: Older-Looking Presidential Candidates Win Elections during War BR Spisak PLoS One 7 (5), e36945, 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
| Opening the black box: Uncovering the leader trait paradigm through machine learning BM Doornenbal, BR Spisak, PA van der Laken The Leadership Quarterly 33 (5), 101515, 2022 | 36 | 2022 |
| Finding the right fuel for the analytical engine: Expanding the leader trait paradigm through machine learning? BR Spisak, PA van der Laken, BM Doornenbal The Leadership Quarterly 30 (4), 417-426, 2019 | 20 | 2019 |
| The cognitive costs of managing emotions: A systematic review of the impact of emotional requirements on cognitive performance G Hofstee, PGW Jansen, AH De Lange, BR Spisak, M Swinkels Work & Stress 35 (3), 301-326, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
| Concerns regarding Covid-19 vaccine certificates BR Spisak, EJ McNulty Politics and the Life Sciences 42 (2), 316-318, 2023 | 14 | 2023 |
| Tinbergen's take on the evolution of leadership: A framework for clarifying and integrating contributions BR Spisak The Leadership Quarterly 31 (2), 101401, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
| An agent-based evolutionary model of leadership A Sharpanskykh, BR Spisak 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and …, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| Large-scale decrease in the social salience of climate change during the COVID-19 pandemic BR Spisak, B State, I van de Leemput, M Scheffer, Y Liu Plos one 17 (1), e0256082, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
| How data can make better managers B Spisak Harvard Business Review, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| Cue masking and cultural signals: Testing context-specific preferences for bald (ing) leaders NM Blaker, BR Spisak, JM Tybur, M Kandrik, RD Arvey Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 88, 103936, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| Typicality ratings of male and female voices B Spisak, J Mullennix, K Moro, J Will, L Farnsworth The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 111 (5_Supplement), 2430-2430, 2002 | 3 | 2002 |
| Brian R. Spisak, AE. Grabo, RD. Arvey, MVugt. The age of exploration and explotation: Younger-looking leaders endorsed for change and older-looking leaders endorsed for stability R Brian The Leadership Quarterly, 805, 2014 | 2* | 2014 |
