Social Comparison: Why, With Whom, and With What Effect?

By Jerry Suls, René Martin, L. Wheeler. 2002

1,018 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/745911319ab77147013c2b416c4055a3d1567723

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Applied Psychology

In Social Psychology

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Studying Gamification: The Effect of Rewards and Incentives on Motivation (2015, background): “Exposure to upward targets increases self-evaluations of competence and motivation since it raises the belief in the possibility of changing status (Suls et al., 2002 ).”
Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field Experiment on MovieLens (2010, methodology): “In this section, we first set up a static model of online recommender systems, which extends the one developed in Harper et al. (2005) by incorporating new MovieLens features.”
Rank And Response: A Field Experiment On Peer Information And Water Use Behavior (2017, background): “Conversely, negatively-framed cooperative messaging provided people with a justi cation for their own bad behavior.”
Building Member Attachment in Online Communities: Applying Theories of Group Identity and Interpersonal Bonds (2012, background): “These comparisons tell us about others in our social environment, are the grist for conversation, and are the basis of selfevaluation and friendship formation (Suls et al. 2002; Wood 1989).”
News Selection Patterns as a Function of Race: The Discerning Minority and the Indiscriminating Majority (2008, background): “Drawing on this assumption, psychological research into the phenomenon has shown that individuals indeed prefer similar others as comparison targets, even though the specific meaning of (perceived) similarity is subject to debate ( Suls, Martin, & Wheeler, 2002 ).”