Post-heroic heroism: Embedded masculinities in media framing of Australian business leadership

Australian Business Leadership Survey

Need-Based Heroism: The Motivation to Assign Heroic Status to Others 1 Need-Based Heroism: The Motivation to Assign Heroic Status to Others Senior Honors Thesis

This study was looking to determine whether people are more likely to look for heroic qualities in others in an emergency situation where a hero is needed, compared to a situation where nothing is wrong. This study also sought to find whether strangers in non-emergency situations will be seen as more villainous and more threatening than strangers in emergency situations. The hypotheses were sup...

Heroism: A Conceptual Analysis and Differentiation Between Heroic Action and Altruism

Heroism represents the ideal of citizens transforming civic virtue into the highest form of civic action, accepting either physical peril or social sacrifice. While implicit theories of heroism abound, surprisingly little theoretical or empirical work has been done to better understand the phenomenon. Toward this goal, we summarize our efforts to systematically develop a taxonomy of heroic subt...

Competing discourses of leadership: Transformational Leadership as blurring mechanism for masculinities in Denmark

This paper contributes to research on leadership, by incorporating insights from the literature on men and masculinities. Empirically, the paper is based on the narratives of three Danish (male) leaders struggling with tensions in discourses of leadership in an interview context. Re-reading of the transcripts in a gender perspective revealed that an understanding of nascent intertwined discours...

Australian news media framing of medical tourism in low- and middle-income countries: a content review

BACKGROUND Medical tourism - travel across international borders for health care - appears to be growing globally, with patients from high-income nations increasingly visiting low- and middle-income countries to access such services. This paper analyses Australian television and newspaper news and current affairs coverage to examine how medical tourism and these destinations for the practice ar...