“Is White Always the Standard? Using Replication to Revisit and Extend What We Know about the Leadership Prototype”, William G. Obenauer, Michael J. Kalsher2023-08 (cognitive bias, sociology)⁠:

This research is a pre-registered replication of Rosette et al 2008 seminal work in leadership categorization theory. Their work established race as a component to the business leader prototype and found evidence that when a leader was given credit for successful organizational performance, White leaders were evaluated more favorably than non-White leaders. As leadership exemplars are evolving, however, a need to reexamine these relationships has emerged.

Results: from our replications of their first and third studies showed:

minimal support for the argument that being White is a component of the business leader prototype.

Additionally, across 6 separate studies, we found:

no conditions in which White leaders received more favorable evaluations than their non-White counterparts. Contrary to our expectations, we found that non-White leaders received marginally more favorable ratings than White leaders in 4 of our studies.