Social Comparison Activity under Threat: Downward Evaluation and Upward Contacts.

Taylor, Shelley E.; Lobel, Marci

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Publication Date: 1989

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Social Comparison Activity under Threat: Downward Evaluation and Upward Contacts.

Taylor, Shelley E.; Lobel, Marci

Psychological Review, v96 n4 p569-75 Oct 1989

Evidence is presented that in certain groups under threat there is a strong preference to evaluate the self against less fortunate others (downward evaluation) but also a desire for information about and contact with more fortunate others (upward contacts). Implications of these patterns in cancer patients are discussed. (SLD)

Descriptors: Cancer, Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods, Self Concept, Self Evaluation (Groups), Social Attitudes, Social Cognition, Social Status

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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