Handbook of Social Comparison: Theory and Research

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Selective History of Classic and Neo-Social Comparison Theory....Pages 3-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Interpreting and Inventing Social Reality....Pages 23-44
Stability of Related Attributes and the Inference of Ability through Social Comparison....Pages 45-66
“Can I Do X ?”....Pages 67-80
Social Comparison and Influence in Groups....Pages 81-103
Opinion Comparison....Pages 105-122
Self-Evaluation Maintenance and Evolution....Pages 123-140
Individual Differences in Social Comparison....Pages 141-158
Among the Better Ones....Pages 159-171
Assimilative and Contrastive Emotional Reactions to Upward and Downward Social Comparisons....Pages 173-200
Examining Social Comparisons with the Test Selection Measure....Pages 201-222
Social Comparison....Pages 223-252
Consequences of Social Comparison....Pages 253-270
Evaluating Social Comparison Targets....Pages 271-293
Social Comparison, Affiliation, and Emotional Contagion under Threat....Pages 295-320
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
The Projective Perception of the Social World....Pages 323-351
Social Judgment as Implicit Social Comparison....Pages 353-378
Comparing Comparisons....Pages 379-398
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Social Identity and Social Comparison....Pages 401-421
Social Comparison and Fairness....Pages 423-441
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Social Comparison Processes in Health and Illness....Pages 443-483
Front Matter....Pages 485-485
Toward an Enlightenment in Social Comparison Theory....Pages 487-499
Back Matter....Pages 501-504