Handbook of Social Comparison: Theory and Research by Jerry Suls (English) Hardc

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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.

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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 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.

Table of Contents

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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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 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.

Details ISBN0306463415 Language English ISBN-10 0306463415 ISBN-13 9780306463419 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 302 Year 2000 Publication Date 2000-08-31 Subtitle Theory and Research Edited by Jerry Suls Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Short Title HANDBK OF SOCIAL COMPARISON 20 Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Pages 504 DOI 10.1007/b108382;10.1007/978-1-4615-4237-7 UK Release Date 2000-08-31 AU Release Date 2000-08-31 NZ Release Date 2000-08-31 US Release Date 2000-08-31 Author Ladd Wheeler Publisher Springer Science+Business Media Edition Description 2000 ed. Series The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology Edition 2000th Alternative 9781461369035 Illustrations XI, 504 p. Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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