Rankings, Standards, and Competition: Task vs. Scale Comparisons

By S. M. Garcia, Avishalom Tor. 2007

123 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/dabe24300b800632fb878af6f2d631fff0d1d4f7

How researchers see this paper

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Maurice E. Schweitzer

In Safety Research

1. Maurice E. Schweitzer
2. Francesca Gino

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Maurice E. Schweitzer
2. Nicole E. Ruedy
3. Jennifer R Dunn
4. Francesca Gino

Citations in the corpus

• The N-Effect (2010, unknown): “…traditionally examined how subjective factors amplify competition (Festinger, 1954; Tesser, 1988), but recently began exploring how objective, contextual, factors also impact the motivation to compete (e.g., Garcia, Tor, Bazerman, & Miller, 2005; Garcia, Tor, & Gonzalez, 2006; Garcia & Tor, 2007).”
• Fairness and the Willingness to Accept Plea Bargain Offers (2010, unknown): “Similar results have been found by choice studies that reveal people’s aversion to disadvantageously unequal allocations (e.g., Garcia & Tor 2007; Garcia et al. 2005, 2010; Loewenstein et al. 1989), and their preference for advantageous inequality (Garcia et al. 2006).”
• It hurts both ways: How social comparisons harm affective and cognitive trust (2012, background): “For example, managers frequently rank employees or publically recognize an employee for special achievement (e.g., an employee of the month award; Garcia & Tor, 2007).”