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Direct linkDijkstra, Pieternel; Kuyper, Hans; van der Werf, Greetje; Buunk, Abraham P.; van der Zee, Yvonne G. – Review of Educational Research, 2008
This article reviews research conducted on social comparison processes in the classroom since Festinger proposed his theory of social comparison. It covers the theoretical framework of social comparison theory, and it is organized around the following themes: motives for social comparison, dimensions of social comparison, direction of social…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Social Influences, Comparative Analysis, Social Theories
Buunk, Abraham P.; Gibbons, Frederick X. – Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2007
The past and current states of research on social comparison are reviewed with regard to a series of major theoretical developments that have occurred in the past 5 decades. These are, in chronological order: (1) classic social comparison theory, (2) fear-affiliation theory, (3) downward comparison theory, (4) social comparison as social…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Social Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Social Science Research
