Communal functions of social comparison /
Krizan, Zlatan.
Gibbons, Frederick X.
Inclludes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Communion in social comparison : back to the roots / Zlatan Križan & Frederick X. Gibbons -- Agency and communion in social comparisons / Kenneth D. Locke -- Social comparison in identity theory / Jan E. Stets & Peter J. Burke -- When comparisons divide : invidious emotions and their social control / Zlatan Križan & Richard H. Smith -- Sparing others through social comparison / Anne L. Zell & Julie Juola Exline -- Social comparisons within romantic relationships / Penelope Lockwood & Rebecca T. Pinkus -- Prototype-based social comparisons within groups : constructing social identity to reduce self-uncertainty / Michael A. Hogg & Amber M. Gaffney -- Bonding, hiding, and promoting : three reactions to shared threat / Hart Blanton, Melissa Burkley, & Edward Burkley -- Basic principles of social comparison : does gender matter? / Serge Guimond & Armand Chatard -- Culture and self-worth : implications for social comparison processes and coping with threats to self-worth / Joni Y. Sasaki, Deborah M. Ko, & Heejung S. Kim.
Social comparison.
Social groups.
Communities.