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Social Comparison and Social Psychology: Understanding Cognition, Intergroup Relations, and Culture
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for Social Comparison and Social Psychology: Understanding Cognition, Intergroup Relations, and Culture
paperback. Examines the role of the process of social comparison as it occurs between individuals and between social groups. Editor(s): Guimond, Serge. Num Pages: 370 pages, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 596.
Much of our knowledge about ourselves, and about the world in which we live, is based on a process of social comparison. Our tendency to appraise events, objects, people, and social groups by making comparisons has captured the interest of social psychologists for over half a century. This volume provides an up-to-date synthesis of the latest theoretical and empirical developments in social psychology through research on social comparison processes. With chapters by leading theorists and internationally renowned researchers, it provides invaluable information on the role of this process of comparison as it occurs within a single individual over time, between ... Read more
Much of our knowledge about ourselves, and about the world in which we live, is based on a process of social comparison. Our tendency to appraise events, objects, people, and social groups by making comparisons has captured the interest of social psychologists for over half a century. This volume provides an up-to-date synthesis of the latest theoretical and empirical developments in social psychology through research on social comparison processes. With chapters by leading theorists and internationally renowned researchers, it provides invaluable information on the role of this process of comparison as it occurs within a single individual over time, between ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521608442
SKU
V9780521608442
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About Roger Hargreaves
Serge Guimond is Professor of Psychology at the Universite Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Reviews for Social Comparison and Social Psychology: Understanding Cognition, Intergroup Relations, and Culture
"The 35 psychologists who contributed to the 17 chapters of this volume hale from France, the United States, Belgium, England, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Malaysia. The representation of nine countries and five native languages highlights the extent to which psychological research of high quality defies geographic and linguistic barriers and becomes global." -Noach Milgram, ... Read more