1 The term face-ism is used by some researchers to refer to the tendency of the media to represent men in high face-ism images, and women in low face-ism images—also referred to as body-ism.
2 The seminal work on face-ism is “Face-ism” by Dane Archer, Debra D. Kimes, and Michael Barrios, Psychology Today, 1978, p. 65–66; and “Face-ism: 5 Studies of Sex-Differences in Facial Prominence” by Dane Archer, Bonita Iritani, Debra D. Kimes, and Michael Barrios, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1983, vol. 45, p. 725–735.
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