Handbook of social comparison: theory and research
In: The Plenum series in social/clinical psychology
Handbook of Social Comparison -- Editor's page -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- I Introduction -- 1 A Selective History of Classic and Neo-Social Comparison Theory -- II Foundations of Social Comparison -- 2 Interpreting and Inventing Social Reality -- 3 Stability of Related Attributes and the Inference of Ability through Social Comparison -- 4 "Can I Do X? -- 5 Social Comparison and Influence in Groups -- 6 Opinion Comparison -- 7 Self-Evaluation Maintenance and Evolution -- 8 Individual Differences in Social Comparison -- 9 Among the Better Ones -- 10 Assimilative and Contrastive Emotional Reactions to Upward and Downward Social Comparisons -- 11 Examining Social Comparisons with the Test Selection Measure -- 12 Social Comparison -- 13 Consequences of Social Comparison -- 14 Evaluating Social Comparison Targets -- 15 Social Comparison, Affiliation, and Emotional Contagion under Threat -- III Related Social Phenomena -- 16 The Projective Perception of the Social World -- 17 Social Judgment as Implicit Social Comparison -- 18 Comparing Comparisons -- IV Applications -- 19 Social Identity and Social Comparison -- 20 Social Comparison and Fairness -- 21 Social Comparison Processes in Health and Illness -- V Commentary -- 22 Toward an Enlightenment in Social Comparison Theory -- Index.