IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jobhdp/v153y2019icp75-88.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Military veterans are morally typecast as agentic but unfeeling: Implications for veteran employment

Author

Listed:
  • Shepherd, Steven
  • Kay, Aaron C.
  • Gray, Kurt

Abstract

What kind of “mind” do people assume those in the military have? This question has important implications for military veterans and provides an opportunity to test moral typecasting as a critical element of the theory of dyadic morality (TDM: Gray & Wegner, 2009; 2011; Schein & Gray, 2017). Based on this theory, moral agents – even those we admire, such as veterans – will be seen as more agentic (ability to plan and act) but have less capacity for experience (ability feel emotion). Leveraging previous theorizing on mind perception, dehumanization, and career typology, the current research shows that veterans are seen as having a higher capacity for agency but less capacity for experience. As a result, veterans are seen as less (more) suited for careers that require a high (low) capacity for experience. Results are found across laypeople, managers, and employees. Implications for veteran well-being are discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • Shepherd, Steven & Kay, Aaron C. & Gray, Kurt, 2019. "Military veterans are morally typecast as agentic but unfeeling: Implications for veteran employment," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 153(C), pages 75-88.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jobhdp:v:153:y:2019:i:c:p:75-88
    DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.06.003
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597818301171
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.06.003?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Stovicek, Klara & Turrini, Alessandro, 2012. "Benchmarking Unemployment Benefits in the EU," IZA Policy Papers 43, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo, 2017. "Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series dp-297, Boston University - Department of Economics.
    3. Huang, Yu-xuan & Liu, Zhi-hua & Ma, Jun & An, Mi & Xiang, An-qiang, 2012. "Employed Farmers in the Pearl River Delta and Related Issues," Asian Agricultural Research, USA-China Science and Culture Media Corporation, vol. 4(06), pages 1-6, June.
    4. Frank Levy, 2010. "How Technology Changes Demands for Human Skills," OECD Education Working Papers 45, OECD Publishing.
    5. ., 2010. "Drug Discovery and Development Technologies," Chapters, in: Innovation and Commercialisation in the Biopharmaceutical Industry, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    6. Klara Stovicek & Alessandro Turrini, 2012. "Benchmarking Unemployment Benefit Systems," European Economy - Economic Papers 2008 - 2015 454, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission.
    7. Edmund Amann & Werner Baer, 2010. "Finance, Technology and Multinationals from the Periphery," World Economics, World Economics, 1 Ivory Square, Plantation Wharf, London, United Kingdom, SW11 3UE, vol. 11(1), pages 125-146, January.
    8. Misbah Tanveer Choudhry & Enrico Marelli & Marcello Signorelli, 2012. "Youth unemployment rate and impact of financial crises," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 33(1), pages 76-95, March.
    9. Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo, 2020. "Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 128(6), pages 2188-2244.
    10. David J. Deming, 2017. "The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 132(4), pages 1593-1640.
    11. Kay, Aaron C. & Jost, John T., 2003. "Complementary Justice: Effects of "Poor But Happy" and "Poor But Honest" Stereotype Exemplars on System Justification and Implicit Activation of the Justice Motive," Research Papers 1753r, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
    12. Tieju Ma, 2010. "Coping with Uncertainties in Technological Learning," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 56(1), pages 192-201, January.
    13. Anthony Arundel & David Sawaya & Ioana Valeanu, 2010. "Human Health Biotechnologies to 2015," OECD Journal: General Papers, OECD Publishing, vol. 2009(3), pages 113-207.
    14. Yi-Chia Chiu & Hsien-Che Lai & Yi-Ching Liaw & Tai-Yu Lee, 2010. "Technological scope: diversified or specialized," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 82(1), pages 37-58, January.
    15. Neil Foster-McGregor & Doris Hanzl-Weiss & Sandra M. Leitner & Sebastian Leitner & Nirina Rabemiafara & Fadila Sanoussi & Robert Stehrer & Terry Ward, 2012. "Sectoral Employment Effects of Economic Downturns," wiiw Research Reports 379, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw.
    16. David Gruen & Bonnie Li & Tim Wong, 2012. "Unemployment disparity across regions," Economic Roundup, The Treasury, Australian Government, issue 2, pages 63-78, August.
    17. Robert Solow, 2010. "Stories about economics and technology," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(5), pages 1113-1126.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Jacques Bughin, 2020. "How Firms will affect the Future of Work," Working Papers TIMES² 2020-035, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    2. Fran Stewart & Kathryn Kelley, 2020. "Connecting Hands and Heads: Retooling Engineering Technology for the “Smart†Manufacturing Workplace," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 34(1), pages 31-45, February.
    3. Kaltenberg, Mary & Foster-McGregor, Neil, 2020. "The impact of automation on inequality across Europe," MERIT Working Papers 2020-009, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    4. Jun-You Lin & Chih-Hai Yang, 2020. "Heterogeneity in industry–university R&D collaboration and firm innovative performance," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 124(1), pages 1-25, July.
    5. Gallipoli, Giovanni & Makridis, Christos A., 2018. "Structural transformation and the rise of information technology," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 91-110.
    6. Naude, Wim, 2019. "The race against the robots and the fallacy of the giant cheesecake: Immediate and imagined impacts of artificial intelligence," MERIT Working Papers 2019-005, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    7. Fran Stewart & Minkyu Yeom & Alice Stewart, 2020. "STEM and Soft Occupational Competencies: Analyzing the Value of Strategic Regional Human Capital," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 34(4), pages 356-371, November.
    8. Georg Graetz, 2019. "Labor Demand in the Past, Present, and Future," European Economy - Discussion Papers 114, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission.
    9. Fossen, Frank M. & Sorgner, Alina, 2019. "New Digital Technologies and Heterogeneous Employment and Wage Dynamics in the United States: Evidence from Individual-Level Data," IZA Discussion Papers 12242, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    10. Da Xie & WeiGuo Yang, 2023. "The Skill-Task Matching Model: Mechanism, Model Structure, and Algorithm," Papers 2306.12176, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2023.
    11. Robert Stehrer, 2022. "The Impact of ICT and Intangible Capital Accumulation on Labour Demand Growth and Functional Income Shares," wiiw Working Papers 218, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw.
    12. Bachmann, Ronald & Stepanyan, Gayane, 2020. "It's a Woman's World? Occupational Structure and the Rise of Female Employment in Germany," VfS Annual Conference 2020 (Virtual Conference): Gender Economics 224626, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    13. Maarten Goos & Melanie Arntz & Ulrich Zierahn & Terry Gregory & Stephanie Carretero Gomez & Ignacio Gonzalez Vazquez & Koen Jonkers, 2019. "The Impact of Technological Innovation on the Future of Work," JRC Working Papers on Labour, Education and Technology 2019-03, Joint Research Centre.
    14. Nicola Cassandro & Marco Centra & Dario Guarascio & Piero Esposito, 2021. "What drives employment–unemployment transitions? Evidence from Italian task-based data," Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Springer;Fondazione Edison, vol. 38(3), pages 1109-1147, October.
    15. Sabrina Aufiero & Giordano De Marzo & Angelica Sbardella & Andrea Zaccaria, 2023. "Mapping job complexity and skills into wages," Papers 2304.05251, arXiv.org.
    16. Wim Naudé, 2019. "New Technology, Entrepreneurship and the Revival of Manufacturing in Africa: Opportunities for Youth and Women?," Working Papers idrcdpru4ir, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit.
    17. Ben Vermeulen & Jan Kesselhut & Andreas Pyka & Pier Paolo Saviotti, 2018. "The Impact of Automation on Employment: Just the Usual Structural Change?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-27, May.
    18. Bode, Eckhardt & Gold, Robert, 2018. "Adult training in the digital age," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 12, pages 1-14.
    19. Gassmann, Franziska & Martorano, Bruno, 2019. "The future of work and its implications for social protection and the welfare state," MERIT Working Papers 2019-039, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    20. Uwe JIRJAHN & Stephen C. SMITH, 2018. "Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory And The German Experience With Mandated Works Councils," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 89(1), pages 201-233, March.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:jobhdp:v:153:y:2019:i:c:p:75-88. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/obhdp .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.