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Toward an Enlightenment in Social Comparison Theory

  • Buunk B
  • Gibbons F
Springer US, (2000), 487-499
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4237-7_22
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Abstract

Social comparison—how we use others to make sense of ourselves and the world—is a focal human concern. Indeed, scholars have long recognized the importance of social comparison for human adaptation and survival. As Suls and Wheeler (Chapter 1, this...

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Buunk, B. P., & Gibbons, F. X. (2000). Toward an Enlightenment in Social Comparison Theory. In Handbook of Social Comparison (pp. 487–499). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4237-7_22

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