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The culture of social comparison [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 SignificanceHumans have the unique ability to coordinate behavior, economic exchange, political action, and social relationships across immense distances and times. To keep this level of coordination running smoothly, we often look to others as comparison standards for how to behave, think, and feel.
Baldwin, M, Mussweiler, T M
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Prescriptive Norms and Social Comparisons [PDF]
Games, 2018 This paper analyzes the equilibrium strength of prescriptive norms to contribute to public goods. We consider three methods of establishing what an acceptable contribution to the public good is. Under the first method, the contribution of the bottom contributor is the reference point by which the comparison is being made; under the second, the median ...
Moti Michaeli, Daniel Spiro
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionPrevious research has established a positive correlation between income and subjective wellbeing (SWB). This correlation is attributed to income’s ability to provide material circumstances and influence one’s perceived socioeconomic rank in ...
Pål Kraft, Pål Kraft, Brage Kraft
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The Vice of Social Comparison in Kierkegaard: Nature, Religious Moral Psychology, and Normativity
Religions, 2023 This paper argues for the thesis that social comparison is, for Kierkegaard, a vice. The first part of this article reconstructs Kierkegaard’s understanding of the nature of social comparison.
Wojciech Kaftanski
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Spormetre Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Bilimleri Dergisi, 2014 Bu araştırma Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yüksekokulu öğrencilerinin sosyal karşılaştırma düzeylerinin çeşitli değişkenler açısından incelenmesini amaçlayan tarama modelli bir çalışmadır. Çalışmaya Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yüksekokulu`nun 3 farklı bölümünde (Beden
Mehmet Bilbek, Cem Yoksuler Yılmaz
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A Sense of Scarcity Enhances the Above-Average Effect in Social Comparison
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Scarcity refers to a state in which an individual’s resources do not satisfy his/her needs. A sense of scarcity evokes negative emotions. A fundamental strategy for coping with this negative threat is for people to emphasize the desirability of their ...
Xiaoyan Wang, Lan Jiao
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Frontiers in Education, 2020 Social comparison processes and the social position within a school class already play a major role in performance evaluation as early as in elementary school.
Jannis Bosch, Jürgen Wilbert
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Race-Ethnicity and the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect in the United States
Social Psychological Bulletin, 2023 According to research on the big-fish-little-pond effect, students with a high rank in a low rank school have more favorable self-evaluations than students with a low rank in a high rank school.
Tara L. Lesick, Ethan Zell
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Social Sciences, 2023 Instagram provides users with different features, including posts and stories. Instagram post stays on the users’ feeds permanently unless the content is deleted.
Donggyu Kim, Soomin Kim
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 It is common practice within primary classrooms for teachers to spilt children into different ability groups so that children of similar level are taught together.
Jane Louise Webb-Williams
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