A Social Comparison Theory Meta-Analysis 60+ Years On

By Jonathan P. Gerber, G. College, L. Wheeler, Jerry Suls. Psychological bulletin, 2017

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

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• A Meta-Analysis of Relations Between Achievement and Self-Concept (2020, background): “Social comparisons use others as interindividual standards in order to judge the self (Festinger, 1954; Gerber et al., 2018), whereas temporal comparisons use former achievements as intraindividual standards (Albert, 1977; Wilson & Ross, 2000), and dimensional comparisons use other domains as intrai”