Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths.Alice H. Eagly,Janie Harden Fritz,Tamara L. Burke,Ned S. Laff,Erin L. Payseur,Diane A. Forbes Berthoud,Sheri A. Whalen,Amy C. Branam,Nathalie Duval-Couetil,Rebecca L. Dohrman,Jenna Stephenson,Melissa Wood Alemá,Jennifer A. Malkowski,Cara Jacocks,Tracey Quigley Holden &Sandra L. French (eds.) -2011 - Lexington Books.detailsCommunicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, weaves the disciplines of communication studies, leadership studies, and women's studies to offer theoretical and practical reflection about women's leadership development in academic, organizational, and political contexts. This work claims a space for women's leadership studies and acknowledges the paradigmatic shift from discussing women's leadership using the glass ceiling to what Eagly and Carli identify as the labyrinth of (...) leadership. (shrink)
Do Don juans have better genes than family men?Alice H. Eagly -2000 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (4):601-602.detailsAn alternative interpretation of Gangestad & Simpson's findings features the assumption that only a subgroup of those men who are low in fluctuating asymmetry are typically available for short-term mating. In general, these philandering men do not offer higher genetic quality than men who are securely attached to long-term mates.
Mischaracterizing social psychology to support the laudable goal of increasing its political diversity.Alice H. Eagly -2015 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38.detailsDuarte et al.'s arguments for increasing political diversity in social psychology are based on mischaracterizations of social psychology as fundamentally flawed in understanding stereotype accuracy and the effects of attitudes on information processing. I correct their misunderstandings while agreeing with their view that political diversity, along with other forms of diversity, stands to benefit social psychology.
Prejudice in context departs from attitudes toward groups.Alice H. Eagly &Amanda B. Diekman -2012 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (6):431-432.detailsThe analysis offered by Dixon et al. fails to acknowledge that the attitudes that drive prejudice are attitudes that are constructed in particular contexts. These attitudes can diverge strongly from attitudes toward the group in general. Social change is thus best achieved through challenging the requirements of roles and by changing group stereotypes.
Sexual selection does not provide an adequate theory of sex differences in aggression.Alice H. Eagly &Wendy Wood -2009 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (3-4):276-277.detailsOur social role/biosocial theory provides a more adequate account of aggression sex differences than does Archer's sexual selection theory. In our theory, these sex differences arise flexibly from sociocultural and ecological forces in interaction with humans' biology, as defined by female and male physical attributes and reproductive activities. Our comments elaborate our theory's explanations for the varied phenomena that Archer presents.
The origins of aggression sex differences: Evolved dispositions versus social roles.Alice H. Eagly &Wendy Wood -1999 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (2):223-224.detailsThe ultimate causes of sex differences in human aggressive behavior can lie mainly in evolved, inherited mechanisms that differ by sex or mainly in the differing placement of women and men in the social structure. The present commentary contrasts Campbell's evolutionary interpretation of aggression sex differences with a social structural interpretation that encompasses a wider range of phenomena.
Universal sex differences across patriarchal cultures [not equal] evolved psychological dispositions.Alice H. Eagly &Wendy Wood -2005 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (2):281-283.detailsSchmitt's findings provide little evidence that sex differences in sociosexuality are explained by evolved dispositions. These sex differences are better explained by an evolutionary account that treats the psychological attributes of women and men as emergent, given the biological attributes of the sexes, especially female reproductive capacity, and the economic and social structural aspects of societies.
Women take risks to help others to stay alive.Alice H. Eagly -2022 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:e135.detailsEvidence that women voluntarily expose themselves to some threats more than men do challenges the generalizability of the claim that women exceed men in self-protective responses. Examples include women's higher rates of living organ donation and rescuing Jews during the holocaust. In general, women's efforts to keep other people alive can take precedence over their efforts to protect themselves.