Križan, Zlatan editor of compilation. Gibbons, Frederick X. editor of compilation. text enk 2014 monographic eng

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1 online resource (265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Edited by Zlatan Križan, Frederick X. Gibbons. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Social comparison Social groups Communities HM716 .C63 2014 302.5 9781139035583 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139035583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139035583 UkCbUP 110301 20171022142808.0 CR9781139035583