Challenge and threat responses during downward and upward social comparisons

By W. Mendes, J. Blascovich, B. Major, Mark D Seery. 2001

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

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Acute stress selectively reduces reward sensitivity (2013, methodology): “The Challenge-Threat Questionnaire (Mendes et al., 2001) was designed to assess individuals’ threat appraisals (perceived resources/demands) of a task, with pre-task and post-task versions.”
Ingroup Experts and Peers as Social Vaccines Who Inoculate the Self-Concept: The Stereotype Inoculation Model (2011, background): “This is probably because successful ingroup members who are very different from the self increase feelings of threat (Mendes, Blascovich, Major, & Seery, 2001 ) by making one's own leadership potential seem even more implausible.”
Psychological Perspectives on Pathways Linking Socioeconomic Status and Physical Health (2011, background): “Induced subordinate status led to increases in negative affect and greater blood pressure reactivity to stressors in prior research (Mendelson et al. 2008, Mendes et al. 2001).”
Social Comparison Theory and Deception in the Interpersonal Exchange of Consumption Information (2006, background): “Because downward social comparisons are often less self-threatening than upward social comparisons (Mendes et al. 2001; Morse and Gergen 1970), contrasting the two allows us to determine whether it is the presence of self-threat arising from a social comparison and not the comparison itself that mot”
On Being Exposed to Superior Others: Consequences of Self-Threatening Upward Social Comparisons (2010, unknown): “As we could expect, upward comparison induces cardiovascular reactivity consistent with threat, while downward comparison induces cardiovascular reactivity consistent with challenge (Mendes et al., 2001).”