‘Seek and ye shall find’: antecedents of assimilation and contrast in social comparison

By Thomas Mussweiler. 2001

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Subfields: Safety Research, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Online Social Influence and the Convergence of Mass and Interpersonal Communication (2017, background): “…contrast processing that results in greater perceived differences between entities, versus comparison to less extreme exemplars that results in assimilation effects and greater perceived similarity to a comparison standard (Herr, 1986; Mussweiler, 2001; Mussweiler, Ruter, & Epstude, 2004).”
Mental construal and the emergence of assimilation and contrast effects: The inclusion/exclusion model. (2010, background): “…searched for similarities between a target and a standard, resulting in assimilation effects; conversely, participants who focused on dissimilarities between the pictures subsequently searched for dissimilarities between a target and a standard, resulting in contrast effects (Mussweiler, 2001).”
Positive psychology in practice (2004, background): “, 2002; Stapel & Koomen, 2000), relatively simple instructional manipulations of attentional focus, self-concept, or cognitive set are able to generate significant effects (e.g., Lockwood & Kunda, 1999; Mussweiler, 2001; Oyserman, Gant, & Ager, 1995).”
The impact of information from similar or different advisors on judgment (2009, background): “Prior research has shown that the effect of social comparison is moderated by similarity (Mussweiler, 2001; 2003).”
A Social Comparison Theory Meta-Analysis 60+ Years On (2017, background): “Mussweiler (2003; Mussweiler & Strack, 2000) has also proposed a model emphasizing assimilation, the selective accessibility model (SAM).”
A First Test of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure as a Measure of Self-Esteem: Irish Prisoner Groups and University Students (2009, background): “Social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954) and its successor theories predict that self-esteem may vary because of the types of social comparisons an individual makes between the self and available peers (Martinot & Redersdorff, 2006; Mussweiler, 2001, 2003; Stiles & Kaplan, 2004).”
Construal-Level Theory of Psychological Distance (2010, unknown): “In view of the opposite effects of assimilation versus contrast, the question of what makes each of them more likely becomes crucial (Mussweiler, 2001; Schwarz & Bless, 2007; Stapel, 2007).”
Revisiting the Multicultural Experience–Creativity Link (2013, background): “In each condition, participants consecutively compared two pairs of illustrated pictures by listing up to 10 similarities or differences for each pair (Mussweiler, 2001).”
Do Female and Male Role Models Who Embody STEM Stereotypes Hinder Women’s Anticipated Success in STEM? (2011, background): “Feeling dissimilar from others causes people to contrast their self-views away from them, or believe themselves less likely to possess traits that others have (Brown, Novick, Lord, & Richards, 1992; Mussweiler, 2001, 2003).”
On Being Exposed to Superior Others: Consequences of Self-Threatening Upward Social Comparisons (2010, unknown): “This procedural priming led respectively to an assimilation and a contrast effect on selfevaluation (Mussweiler, 2001).”
Social Comparison: Why, With Whom, and With What Effect? (2002, background): “Mussweiler (2001) proposed that the moderators just mentioned may produce assimilation or contrast through a common process.”
Comparison processes in social judgment: mechanisms and consequences. (2003, background): “Consistent with this reasoning, much of the previously described empirical support for the selective accessibility mechanism actually stems from spontaneous comparison paradigms (e.g., Mussweiler, 2001c; Mussweiler & Bodenhausen, 2002).”
Anchoring effects in world university rankings: exploring biases in reputation scores (2011, background): “…judgments are also subject to anchoring effects, such as judges and prosecutors making sentencing decisions (Englich et al. 2006; Englich and Mussweiler 2001), auditors estimating corporate fraud (Joyce and Biddle 1981), real estate agents assessing home values (Northcraft and Neale 1987),…”
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