Handbook of Social Comparison
Subtitle: Theory and Research (The Springer Series in Social/Clinical Psychology)
Contributors: Jerry Suls (Editor); Ladd Wheeler (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780306463419
Subjects: Social, group or collective psychology; Sociological Measurements; Social Science; Psychology; Sociology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; Methodology; Comparison (Psychology); Social Psychology; Social perception
First sentence: In his brief history of the field from 1950 to the early 1980s, Wheeler (1991) observed that Social comparison theory has a most peculiar history.