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Handbook of social comparison : theory and research /

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Comparison of objects, events, and situations is integral to judgment; comparisons of the self with other people comprise one of the building blocks of human conduct and experience. After four decades of research, the topic of social comparison is more popular than ever. In this timely handbook a di...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Suls, Jerry M. (Editor), Wheeler, Ladd, 1937- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2000]
Series:Plenum series in social/clinical psychology.
Subjects:
Social perception.
Social psychology.
Comparison (Psychology)
Perception sociale.
Psychologie sociale.
Comparaison (Psychologie)
Sociale vergelijking.
Sociale waarneming.
Sozialer Vergleichsprozess.
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Table of Contents:
  • A selective history of classic and neo-social comparison theory / Jerry Suls and Ladd Wheeler
  • Interpreting and inventing social reality : attributional and constructive elements in social comparison / George R. Goethals and William M.P. Klein
  • Stability of related attributes and the inference of ability through social comparison / William P. Smith and Gudmundur B. Arnkelsson
  • "Can I do X?" : using the proxy comparison model to predict performance / RenĂ© Martin
  • Social comparison and influence in groups / Donelson R. Forsyth
  • Opinion comparison : the role of the corroborator, expert, and proxy in social influence / Jerry Suls
  • Self-evaluation maintenance and evolution : some speculative notes / Steven R.H. Beach and Abraham Tesser
  • Individual differences in social comparison / Ladd Wheeler
  • Among the better ones : upward assimilation in social comparison / Rebecca L. Collins
  • Assimilative and contrastive emotional reactions to upward and downward social comparisons / Richard H. Smith
  • Examining social comparisons with the test selection measure : opportunities for the researcher and the research participant / Joanne V. Wood
  • Social comparison : lessons from basic research on judgment / Douglas H. Wedell and Allen Parducci
  • Consequences of social comparison : selective accessibility, assimilation, and contrast / Thomas Mussweiler and Fritz Strack
  • Evaluating social comparison targets / Mark D. Alicke
  • Social comparison, affiliation, and emotional contagion under threat / James A. Kulik and Heike I.M. Mahler
  • The projective perception of the social world : a building block of social comparison processes / Joachim Krueger
  • Social judgment as implicit social comparison / David Dunning
  • Comparing comparisons : an integrative perspective on social comparison and counterfactual thinking / James M. Olson, Oswald Buhrmann, and Neal J. Roese
  • Social identity and social comparison / Michael A. Hogg
  • Social comparison and fairness : a counterfactual simulations perspective / Robert Folger and Edward Eliyahu Kass
  • Social comparison processes in health and illness / Howard Tennen, Tara Eberhardt McKeee, and Glenn Affleck
  • Toward an enlightenement in social comparison theory : moving beyond classic and Renaissance approaches / Bram P. Buunk and Frederick X. Gibbons.