The focusing effect of self-evaluation threat in coaction and social comparison. [article].
This article contends that the presence of a coactor leads to a focusing effect whenever this presence represents a threat or potential threat to self- evaluation. Experiment 1 showed that attentional focusing appears in the presence of an actual (in the case of upward comparison) or potential (in t...
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