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Contrast and Assimilation Effects on Self-Evaluation of Performance and Task Interest in a Sample of Elementary School Children

open access: yesFrontiers 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

open access: yesSocial 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 Media Affordances of Ephemerality and Permanence: Social Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Body Image Concerns

open access: yesSocial 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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Teachers’ Use of Within-Class Ability Groups in the Primary Classroom: A Mixed Methods Study of Social Comparison

open access: yesFrontiers 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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The Moderating Role of Social Network Size on Social Media Use and Self-Esteem: An Evolutionary Mismatch Perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Existing meta-analyses have shown that the relationship between social media use and self-esteem is negative, but at very small effect sizes, suggesting the presence of moderators that change the relationship between social media use and self-esteem ...
Amy J. Lim, Clement Lau, Norman P. Li
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Symbolic Interaction, Power, and War: Narratives of Unaccompanied Young Refugees with War Experiences in Institutional Care in Sweden

open access: yesSocieties, 2022
This study concerns young people who have experienced war, taken shelter in Sweden, and been placed in institutions. The purpose of the study is to identify and analyze power relations that contribute to the shaping of young people’s identities and ...
Goran Basic
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Social norms interventions to change clinical behaviour in health workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesHealth Services and Delivery Research, 2020
Background: A social norms intervention seeks to change the clinical behaviour of a target health worker by exposing them to the values, beliefs, attitudes or behaviours of a reference group or person.
Sarah Cotterill   +7 more
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The Roles of Media, Social Comparison and Self-discrepancy on Overweight/Obese Patients’ Decision to Undergo Intragastric Botulinum Toxin-A Injection

open access: yesPsikoloji Çalışmaları, 2022
Body image is the sum of individuals’ perceptions of their own bodies. There are various factors that affect body image, one of which is sociocultural factors.
Elif Eşiyok, Dilek Demirtepe Saygılı
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The Role of Comparisons in Judgments of Loneliness

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Loneliness—perceived social isolation—is defined as a discrepancy between existing social relationships and desired quality of relationships. Whereas most research has focused on existing relationships, we consider the standards against which people ...
Andrew J. Arnold   +4 more
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Differential media effects on male body satisfaction and mood

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Psychology, 2020
Objective Previous research has shown that idealised images of men in the media have the capacity to trigger body dissatisfaction in male viewers. However, little is known about these effects across diverse media types. This study compared the effects of
Andrew Allen, Kate E. Mulgrew
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