Social Comparison Processes

Author : Stephen G. Harkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199859876
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Social Influence written by Stephen G. Harkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Social Influence restores this important field to its once preeminent position within social psychology. Editors Harkins, Williams, and Burger lead a team of leading scholars as they explore a variety of topics within social influence, seamlessly incorporating a range of analyses (including intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intragroup), and examine critical theories and the role of social influence in applied settings today.

Author : Jerry M. Suls
Publisher : Hemisphere Pub
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Social Comparison Processes written by Jerry M. Suls and published by Hemisphere Pub. This book was released on 1977 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerry Suls
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040025595
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Social Comparison written by Jerry Suls and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment of abilities, opinions, and overall feelings of self-worth, are commonly acknowledged to be influenced by how ones’ attributes compare with those of other people. In contemporary social psychology, this process is known as social comparison or interpersonal comparison. Originally published in 1991, this volume presents the most recent developments in this field of study at the time. As described in the chapters the theory has gone through several iterations, taken on new problems and research paradigms, and reached out to other social-psychological areas of study. Some of this research addresses questions that are logical extensions of Festinger’s theory; some consider questions that derive from entirely different ways of construing the comparison process from Festinger’s original approach. Although all questions are not settled, the work presented here shows how far the original social comparison theory has evolved and suggests where the next insights are likely to be found. Today it can be read in its historical contex

Author : Jerry Suls
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461542375
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Handbook of Social Comparison written by Jerry Suls and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparison of objects, events, and situations is integral to judgment; comparisons of the self with other people comprise one of the building blocks of human conduct and experience. After four decades of research, the topic of social comparison is more popular than ever. In this timely handbook a distinguished roster of researchers and theoreticians describe where the field has been since its development in the early 1950s and where it is likely to go next.

Author : Serge Guimond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521845939
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Social Comparison and Social Psychology written by Serge Guimond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Zlatan Križan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107728819
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Communal Functions of Social Comparison written by Zlatan Križan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extent to which we see ourselves as similar or different from others in our lives plays a key role in getting along and participating in social life. This volume identifies research relevant to such communal functions of social comparisons and summarizes and organizes this research within a single, coherent conceptual framework. The volume provides an important addition to current thinking about social comparison, which has often neglected communal and affiliative functions. Whereas human desire to compare with others has traditionally been viewed as motivated by self-centered needs such as self-evaluation, self-enhancement, and self-improvement, this book presents an eclectic cross-section of research that illuminates connective, cooperative, and participatory functions of social comparisons. In this vein, the book aims both to expose research on currently neglected functions of social comparisons and to motivate a broader theoretical integration of social comparison processes.

Author : Bram P. Buunk
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134793103
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Health, Coping, and Well-being written by Bram P. Buunk and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decades, the field of health psychology has witnessed a tremendous growth, and social psychologists have contributed substantially to the theoretical foundation of this field. Their research has focused on a wide variety of health-relevant topics such as how individuals decide to respond to threats to their health and well-being, how and why they change their behavior to avoid such threats, and especially, how they adjust to or cope with the risk of threatening disease and with the diseases themselves. As diverse as this literature may be, however, there does appear to be a common theme throughout much of it--the observation that comparison of oneself and one's health status and coping efforts with others is an integral part of the coping process. Consequently, social comparison theory is increasingly becoming recognized as a fruitful framework for illuminating health related issues. A still expanding literature is exploring the role of social comparisons with respect to coping with a wide range of health problems, including cancer, physical decline among the aged, rheumatoid arthritis, AIDS, stress at work and occupational burnout, and eating disorders. Social comparison theory has augmented knowledge about the ways in which people cope with stressful events, and thus has contributed significantly to it. At a more basic level, research in this applied context has made significant contributions to the development of social comparison theory itself. The present volume presents an overview of the various ways in which social comparison theory has been applied to issues related to health, coping, and well-being, and also points out how these applications have contributed to our insight into the way humans employ social comparison information. Given the attention paid to theoretical and applied issues, this volume will appeal to a wide audience, including social and health psychologists, as well as therapists, physicians, clinicians, medical sociologists, nurses, and those involved in the growing field of nursing research.

Author : Brian Mullen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461246342
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Theories of Group Behavior written by Brian Mullen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1983, we began to organize a symposium entitled "General Social Psychological Theories of Group Behavior." Our goal was to encourage the extension and application of basic current social psychology to group behavior. The symposium was presented in the spring of 1984 at the Eastern Psychological Association convention in Baltimore and the interest that it generated led to discussions with colleagues and friends about similar efforts by social psychologists, eventually resulting in the present book. Some clarification about the contents is in order. First, the theories presented here are clearly social psychological in scope and level of analysis, as discussed in the Introduction (Chapter 1). However, we are not trying to encompass sociological, anthropological, political, or historical theoretical approaches to group behavior. Second, while the theories comprise a wide-ranging and representative, if not quite exhaustive, selection of social psychological theories of group behavior, there are some interesting and general perspectives that are not represented. For example, one perspective that is conspicuous by its absence is some variant of learning theory. Aside from the rare, notable exception (e.g., Buss, 1979), little work currently is being done on group behavior from a learning theoretic perspective. Our inclusion or exclusion of a theory reflects our judgment regarding its currency and accessibility to social psychological researchers.

Author : Muzafer Sherif
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Group Relations at the Crossroads written by Muzafer Sherif and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diederik A. Stapel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Social Comparison Theories written by Diederik A. Stapel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In effect, social comparison is a fundamental process of self-conception through the perception of others-self, as it is identified with others.