Social Comparison and Social Psychology
Subtitle: Understanding Cognition, Intergroup Relations, and Culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780521845939
Subjects: Social, group or collective psychology; Psychology; Sociology - General; Personality; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; Cognition and culture; Intergroup relations; Social groups
First sentence: Fifty years ago, Festinger (1954) published a Theory of social comparison processes.