Theory and research concerning social comparisons of personal attributes.

JV Wood - Psychological bulletin, 1989 - psycnet.apa.org
Social comparison theory has evolved considerably since L. Festinger (1954) originally
proposed it. This article integrates these changes with insights offered by recent social …

For better or worse: The impact of upward social comparison on self-evaluations.

RL Collins - Psychological bulletin, 1996 - psycnet.apa.org
Upward social comparison is generally regarded as ego deflating, yet people often compare
themselves with those whose abilities and attributes are better than their own. Upward …

[BOOK][B] Differentiation between social groups: Studies in the social psychology of intergroup relations.

HE Tajfel - 1978 - psycnet.apa.org
Presents 17 articles which center around the basic thesis that there is a marked tendency to
social differentiation instead of conformity, and that this promotes social innovation and …

Social support, stress and the buffering hypothesis: A theoretical analysis

S Cohen, G McKay - Handbook of psychology and health, Volume …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
The last few years have seen a blossoming of interest in the role of interpersonal
relationships in protecting people from the possibly pathogenic effects of stressful events (cf …

[BOOK][B] Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation

AJ Elliot - 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

[BOOK][B] Lay epistemics and human knowledge: Cognitive and motivational bases

AW Kruglanski - 2013 - books.google.com
Whatever your reasons, kind reader, for reading these words,-what ever your premises
about forewords, whatever the epistemic motivation with which you approach them-Iet me …

Self-evaluation: To thine own self be good, to thine own self be sure, to thine own self be true, and to thine own self be better

C Sedikides, MJ Strube - Advances in experimental social psychology, 1997 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter tries to accomplish three objectives. Firstly, it defines the
four motives and provides a selective review of research that indicates their prevalence …

[BOOK][B] Organizational learning from performance feedback: A behavioral perspective on innovation and change

HR Greve - 2003 - books.google.com
Revisiting Cyert and March's classic 1963'Behavioral Theory of the Firm', Henrich Greve
offers an intriguing analysis of how firms evolve in response to feedback about their own …

The affective consequences of social comparison: either direction has its ups and downs.

BP Buunk, RL Collins, SE Taylor… - Journal of personality …, 1990 - psycnet.apa.org
Research on social comparison processes has assumed that a comparison in a given
direction (upward or downward) will lead to a particular affective reaction. In contrast, the …

Social comparison in everyday life.

L Wheeler, K Miyake - Journal of personality and social …, 1992 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract 94 college students recorded details of their social comparisons over 2 wks using a
new instrument, the Rochester Social Comparison Record. Major results were (1) …