Originally Posted by indigo
From the linked paper (which is focused on management and organizational behavior, not specifically child development) [...]

Leadership—not management. A parent is (hopefully) a leader to their child. Organizations include dyads—relationships between two individuals, such as between a parent and their child. PEA–NEA theory is grounded in research from both neuroscience and psychology.

Here is a paper that goes more into the neuroscience underlying PEA–NEA theory, Boyatzis et al. again: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3941086/.

The paper contains colorfully mapped models of the brain, so it must be true. smile