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Informationen zum Autor Diederik A. Stapel is Professor of Consumer Science and Director of the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research (TIBER) at Tilburg University! in the Netherlands. He is associate editor of Psychological Science! the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! a former associate editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology! and has served on the editorial boards of Self and Identity! the European Journal of Social Psychology! and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. For his research on knowledge accessibility effects! he earned the Jos Jaspars Award of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology. Stapel's publications concern judgment and decision making and unconscious affective and evaluative processes.Hart Blanton is Associate Professor of Psychology at Texas A&M University. He is associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; on the editorial boards for Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Self and Identity; and has served on the editorial board of Psychology and Health. For his work on DevianceRegulation Theory! a comparison-based theory of behavioral self-regulation! he received the 2002 Theoretical Innovation Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. Blanton's publications concern individual and group comparison processes! behavioral self-regulation! normative social influence! research methods! and the measurement of implicit attitudes. Klappentext Offers a collection of readings that focus on the motivations and mechanisms underlying social comparison effects! the role of social comparison processes in everyday life! the similarities and differences between interpersonal and inter-group social comparisons! and the strategies people employ to disregard detrimental social comparison outcomes. Zusammenfassung This volume of works shows the wide range of topics that concern social comparisons researchers and also the shared beliefs that bind them together. Inhaltsverzeichnis Blanton, Stapel, Introduction to the History of Social Comparison. Part 1. Festinger . Festinger, Informal Social Communication ( Psychological Review ) . Festinger, A Theory of Social Comparison Processes ( Human Relations ) . Part 2. Comparison Motives: Classic Statements . Goethals, Darley, Social Comparison Theory: An Attributional Approach (in Suls & Miller (Eds.), Social Comparison Processes: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives ) . Brickman, Janoff Bulman, Pleasure and Pain in Social Comparison Theory (in Suls & Miller (Eds.), Social Comparison Processes: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives ) . Taylor, Lobel, Social Comparison Activity Under Threat: Downward Evaluation and Upward Contacts ( Psychological Review ) . Tesser, Toward a Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model of Social Behavior (in Baumeister (Ed.), The Self in Social Psychology ) . Part 3. Threats and Inspiration . Buunk, Collins, Taylor, Dakof, Van Yperen, The Affective Consequences of Social Comparisons: Either Direction Has Its Ups and Downs ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ) . Lockwood, Kunda, Superstars and Me: Predicting the Impact of Role Models on the Self ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ) . Alicke, LoSchiavo, Zerbst, Zhang, The Person Who Outperforms Me Is A Genius: Maintaining Perceived Competence in Upward Social Comparison ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ) . Gibbons, Benbow, Gerrard, From Top Dog to Bottom Half: Social Comparison Strategies in Response to Poor Performance ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ) . Part 4. Br...
