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020			_a9781139035583 (ebook)
020			_z9780521119498 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aHM716 _b.C63 2014
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245	0	0	_aCommunal Functions of Social Comparison / _cedited by Zlatan Križan, Frederick X. Gibbons.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (265 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe 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.
650		0	_aSocial comparison
650		0	_aSocial groups
650		0	_aCommunities
700	1		_aKrižan, Zlatan, _eeditor.
700	1		_aGibbons, Frederick X., _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521119498
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139035583
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37074 _d37074