02202nam a22003498a 4500 CR9781139035583 UkCbUP 20171022140758.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110301s2014||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139035583 (ebook) 9780521119498 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda HM716 .C63 2014 302.5 23 Communal Functions of Social Comparison / Edited by Zlatan Križan, Frederick X. Gibbons. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. 1 online resource (265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). The extent to which we see ourselves as similar or different from others in our lives plays a key role in getting along and participating in social life. This volume identifies research relevant to such communal functions of social comparisons and summarizes and organizes this research within a single, coherent conceptual framework. The volume provides an important addition to current thinking about social comparison, which has often neglected communal and affiliative functions. Whereas human desire to compare with others has traditionally been viewed as motivated by self-centered needs such as self-evaluation, self-enhancement, and self-improvement, this book presents an eclectic cross-section of research that illuminates connective, cooperative, and participatory functions of social comparisons. In this vein, the book aims both to expose research on currently neglected functions of social comparisons and to motivate a broader theoretical integration of social comparison processes. Social comparison Social groups Communities Križan, Zlatan, editor of compilation. Gibbons, Frederick X., editor of compilation. Print version: 9780521119498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139035583 228683 228683