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" Handbook of Social Comparison : "
edited by Jerry Suls, Ladd Wheeler.
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BL
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726859
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edited by Jerry Suls, Ladd Wheeler.
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Handbook of Social Comparison : : Theory and Research\ edited by Jerry Suls, Ladd Wheeler.
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Boston, MA: Springer US : Imprint : Springer, 2000
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Plenum series in social/clinical psychology
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1461369037
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: 1461542375
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: 9781461369035
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: 9781461542377
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I. Introduction --;1. A Selective History of Classic and Neo-Social Comparison Theory --;II. Foundations of Social Comparison --;2. Interpreting and Inventing Social Reality: Attributional and Constructive Elements in Social Comparison --;3. Stability of Related Attributes and the Inference of Ability through Social Comparison --;4. 'Can I Do X?': Using the Proxy Comparison Model to Predict Performance --;5. Social Comparison and Influence in Groups --;6. Opinion Comparison: The Role of the Corroborator, Expert, and Proxy in Social Influence --;7. Self-Evaluation Maintenance and Evolution: Some Speculative Notes --;8. Individual Differences in Social Comparison --;9. Among the Better Ones: Upward Assimilation in Social Comparison --;10. Assimilative and Contrastive Emotional Reactions to Upward and Downward Social Comparisons --;11. Examining Social Comparisons with the Test Selection Measure: Opportunities for the Researcher and the Research Participant --;12. Social Comparison: Lessons from Basic Research on Judgment --;13. Consequences of Social Comparison: Selective Accessibility, Assimilation, and Contrast --;14. Evaluating Social Comparison Targets --;15. Social Comparison, Affiliation, and Emotional Contagion under Threat --;III. Related Social Phenomena --;16. The Projective Perception of the Social World: A Building Block of Social Comparison Processes --;17. Social Judgment as Implicit Social Comparison --;18. Comparing Comparisons: An Integrative Perspective on Social Comparison and Counterfactual Thinking --;IV. Applications --;19. Social Identity and Social Comparison --;20. Social Comparison and Fairness: A Counterfactual Simulations Perspective --;21. Social Comparison Processes in Health and Illness --;V. Commentary --;22. Toward an Enlightenment in Social Comparison Theory: Moving beyond Classic and Renaissance Approaches.
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After four decades of research, the topic of social comparison is more popular than ever. In this timely handbook a distinguished roster of researchers and theoreticians describe where the field has been since its development in the early 1950s and where it is likely to go next.
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Consciousness.
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Philosophy (General)
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Psychology, clinical.
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Jerry Suls
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Ladd Wheeler
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