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Trait leadership, a concept which began to develop in earnest in the nineteenth century, was the first attempt to theorize the factors considered essential to efficient leadership. There are many branches of trait leadership, across a wide variety of organizational and academic fields. However, critics warn that the widespread prevalence of trait beliefs contributes to the development of stereotypes. Most contemporary personality trait theories take into account, to different degrees, the influence of sociocultural phenomena such as physiology, psychology, culture, socioeconomic status, and globalization.