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

Contributor(s): Suls, Jerry ed | Wheeler, Ladd ed Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Springer, 2000Description: xi,594p. : ill. ; 25cmISBN: 9781461369035 (pb)Subject(s): Philosophy (General) | Psychology, clinical | ConsciousnessDDC classification: 519.50285

Contents:

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

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

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