The Ups and Downs of Thinking About a Successful Other: Self Construals and the Consequences of Social Comparisons

By Markus Kemmelmeier, D. Oyserman. 2001

104 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Applied Psychology

1. D. Oyserman
2. Kathy Terry
3. D. Bybee
4. U. Kühnen
5. Stephanie A. Fryberg
6. Berna Gerçek-Swing
7. Carlos J. Torelli
8. Diana E. Betz

In Social Psychology

1. E. Hardin
2. Berna Gerçek-Swing
3. D. Oyserman
4. Susan E. Cross
5. Stephanie A. Fryberg
6. Carlos J. Torelli
7. U. Kühnen
8. S. Shavitt

In Sociology and Political Science

1. D. Oyserman
2. E. Hardin
3. Berna Gerçek-Swing
4. Susan E. Cross
5. Stephanie A. Fryberg
6. Carlos J. Torelli
7. Kathy Terry
8. D. Bybee

Citations in the corpus

• Thinking about the self influences thinking in general: cognitive consequences of salient self-concept (2002, background): “This is a plausible hypothesis with some support, women, not men, assimilate an other’s failure into their self-assessment, feeling more pessimistic about their chances of success after bringing to mind the other (Kemmelmeier & Oyserman, 2001a).”
• Possible selves as roadmaps (2004, background): “Pittman, 2001) or similar others successes and failures in attaining the possible self ( Kemmelmeier & Oyserman, 2001 ).”
• The Impact of Goal Orientation on the Association between Leadership Style and Follower Performance, Creativity and Work Attitudes (2007, background): “Likewise, individuals who experience an interdependent self construal (Kemmelmeier and Oyserman, 2001) or feel certain of their own qualities and attributes (Pelham and Wachsmuth, 1995) also perceive themselves more favourably after they form images of exemplary role models.”
• The Horizontal/Vertical Distinction in Cross-Cultural Consumer Research (2006, background): “Cross, Bacon, and Morris (2000) demonstrated that a more relational version of interdependence applies in Western compared to Eastern societies, and provided a scale for its measurement (see also Kemmelmeier & Oyserman, 2001).”
• My Fair Physicist? Feminine Math and Science Role Models Demotivate Young Girls (2012, background): “In support of this possibility, comparing oneself to a more successful other can decrease current academic self-ratings without affecting predicted future success (Kemmelmeier & Oyserman, 2001).”
• The What, How, Why, and Where of Self-Construal (2011, background): “When the InterSC is activated, people tend to assimilate or view themselves as similar to the comparison target (also see Kemmelmeier & Oyserman, 2001; Kühnen & Haberstroh, 2004; Kühnen & Hannover, 2000; Stapel & van der Zee, 2006) Behavioral evidence for assimilation versus contrast effects of…”
• The Possible Selves of Diverse Adolescents: Content and Function Across Gender, Race and National Origin (2006, background): “We also found a number of close-ended measures 3 for teens and college students focused specifically on academic (Anderman, Anderman and Griesinger, 1999, Kemmelmeier and Oyserman, 2001b; Kemmelmeier, Oyserman, and Brosh, 2003) and social (Anderman, Anderman and Griesinger, 1999) possible selves.”