Face-ism and military leadership

Face-ism and Objectification in Mainstream and LGBT Magazines

In visual media, men are often shown with more facial prominence than women, a manifestation of sexism that has been labeled face-ism. The present research extended the study of facial prominence and gender representation in media to include magazines aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) audiences for the first time, and also examined whether overall gender differences in fac...

Face-ism and kernels of truth in facial inferences.

In a recent article in the Science & Society section of this journal [1], Olivola and colleagues delivered a powerful argument about fighting the phenomenon that they called ‘face-ism’. (i) Many important social decisions are made on the basis of people’s facial appearance. (ii) Social inferences based on facial appearance are inaccurate and unreliable. (iii) Therefore, we need to stop people f...

Military Leadership: A Context Specific Review

The purpose of this article is to review the literature on military leadership and highlight research opportunities for leadership scholars. The review uses a context specific approach and turns to a simplified version of Hunt’s (Hunt, J. G. (1991). Leadership: A new synthesis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage) extended multilevel leadership model as a template to examine the many facets of military lead...

Military line leadership and tobacco control: perspectives of military policy leaders and tobacco control managers.

Despite progress in policy changes, tobacco use rates are still high in the military. Little is known about the views of those who create and implement tobacco control policies within the Department of Defense. These individuals determine what policy initiatives will be developed, prioritized, and implemented. We conducted key informant interviews with 16 service-level policy leaders (PLs) and ...

SOF leadership in the face of stress.