Giving Advice to an Angry Leader in a Sunk Cost Situation: The Interplay between the Leader’s Emotional Display and Advisors’ Ingroup Identification

The current study investigated the moderating role of the leader’s emotional display on the relationship between advisors’ ingroup identification and their conformity to the leader’s wrong decision. As hypothesized, advisors’ ingroup identification positively predicted advisors’ conformity toward the leader in a sunk cost situation only when the leader expressed anger.