Some effective consequences of social comparison and reflection processes the pain and pleasure of being close

A self-evaluation maintenance (SEM) model of social behavior was described. According to the comparison process, when another outperforms the self on a task high in relevance to the self, the closer the other the greater the threat to self-evaluation. According to the reflection process, when anothe...

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Main Authors: Tesser, Abraham (Author), Millar, Murray (Author)
Format: Analytics
Language:English
Published: 1988.
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