Assimilative and Contrastive Emotional Reactions to Upward and Downward Social Comparisons

By Richard H. Smith. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Engaging in upward and downward comparisons as a determinant of relative deprivation at work: A longitudinal study (2003, background): “Similarly, individuals who are exposed to a colleague who is performing in a poor manner may experience negative feelings, because they become annoyed that they are working so much harder (cf. Blanton, 2000; Buunk, Ybema, Van der Zee, Schaufeli, & Gibbons, 2001c; Pelham & Wachsmuth, 1995; Smith, 200”
Research Note - Why Following Friends Can Hurt You: An Exploratory Investigation of the Effects of Envy on Social Networking Sites among College-Age Users (2015, unknown): “Smith (2004) argues that envy may”
Holier than me? Threatening Social Comparison in the Moral Domain (2007, background): “The present discussion builds most directly on the work on defensive attributions in response to unflattering upward comparison (Alicke, 2000), emotional reactions to comparison (Salovey, 1991; Smith, 2000), and the Self-Evaluation Maintenance (SEM) model proposed by Tesser and colleagues (Tesser, 1”
Admiration: A Conceptual Review (2016, background): “In the context of upward comparison, Smith (2000) proposed that admiration occurs only when people believe they have the potential to become like the admired.”
Envy and Its Transmutations. (2004, background): “In terms of potential threats from others, this also means that people should have the capacity and the inclination to assess their rank (e.g., Beach & Tesser, 2000; Buunk & Ybema, 1997; Frank, 1999; Gilbert, 1999; Smith, 2000 ).”
When Professionals Become Mothers, Warmth Doesn't Cut the Ice (2004, background): “Envy tends to be directed toward higher-status groups ( Smith, 2000 ) whose positive outcomes are seen as unjust (Smith et al., 1994).”
The dynamics of warmth and competence judgments, and their outcomes in organizations (2011, background): “Social comparison-based (Smith, 2000) and attributional (e.g., Weiner, 2005) models of emotion informed our predictions.”
Envy and Its Consequences: Why It Is Useful to Distinguish between Benign and Malicious Envy (2016, background): “Van de Ven et al. (2009) also found that malicious envy differed from resentment, with resentment being purely focused on the other person, while malicious envy had a dual focus on both the other and oneself (see also Smith, 2000).”