Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of social comparison : theory and research / edited by Jerry Suls and Ladd Wheeler.

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Suls, Jerry M.
• Wheeler, Ladd, 1937-

Description

x, 504 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Plenum series in social/clinical psychology

Uniform Title

Plenum series in social/clinical psychology.

Subject

• Social perception
• Social psychology
• Comparison (Psychology)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. A Selective History of Classic and Neo-Social Comparison Theory / Jerry Suls and Ladd Wheeler -- Ch. 2. Interpreting and Inventing Social Reality: Attributional and Constructive Elements in Social Comparison / George R. Goethals and William M. P. Klein -- Ch. 3. Stability of Related Attributes and the Inference of Ability through Social Comparison / William P. Smith and Gudmundur B. Arnkelsson -- Ch. 4. "Can I Do X?": Using the Proxy Comparison Model to Predict Performance / Rene Martin -- Ch. 5. Social Comparison and Influence in Groups / Donelson R. Forsyth -- Ch. 6. Opinion Comparison: The Role of the Corroborator, Expert, and Proxy in Social Influence / Jerry Suls -- Ch. 7. Self-Evaluation Maintenance and Evolution: Some Speculative Notes / Steven R. H. Beach and Abraham Tesser -- Ch. 8. Individual Differences in Social Comparison / Ladd Wheeler -- Ch. 9. Among the Better Ones: Upward Assimilation in Social Comparison / Rebecca L. Collins --
• Ch. 10. Assimilative and Contrastive Emotional Reactions to Upward and Downward Social Comparisons / Richard H. Smith -- Ch. 11. Examining Social Comparisons with the Test Selection Measure: Opportunities for the Researcher and the Research Participant / Joanne V. Wood -- Ch. 12. Social Comparison: Lessons from Basic Research on Judgment / Douglas H. Wedell and Allen Parducci -- Ch. 13. Consequences of Social Comparison: Selective Accessibility, Assimilation, and Contrast / Thomas Mussweiler and Fritz Strack -- Ch. 14. Evaluating Social Comparison Targets / Mark D. Alicke -- Ch. 15. Social Comparison, Affiliation, and Emotional Contagion under Threat / James A. Kulik and Heike I. M. Mahler -- Ch. 16. The Projective Perception of the Social World: A Building Block of Social Comparison Processes / Joachim Krueger -- Ch. 17. Social Judgment as Implicit Social Comparison / David Dunning --
• Ch. 18. Comparing Comparisons: An Integrative Perspective on Social Comparison and Counterfactual Thinking / James M. Olson, Oswald Buhrmann and Neal J. Roese -- Ch. 19. Social Identity and Social Comparison / Michael A. Hogg -- Ch. 20. Social Comparison and Fairness: A Counterfactual Simulations Perspective / Robert Folger and Edward Eliyahu Kass -- Ch. 21. Social Comparison Processes in Health and Illness / Howard Tennen, Tara Eberhardt McKee and Glenn Affleck -- Ch. 22. Toward an Enlightenment in Social Comparison Theory: Moving beyond Classic and Renaissance Approaches / Bram P. Buunk and Frederick X. Gibbons.

ISBN

0306463415

LCCN

00021556

OCLC

• ocm43512951
• SCSB-4094328

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries