Diederik A. Stapel

TL;DR: This article showed that contrast effects reflect comparisons of the self with the exemplar, and the proposition that contrast effect reflected comparisons of self with exemplar was supported by contrast effects. But they did not consider the effect of stereotypes on automatic behavior.

TL;DR: It is found that the effect of power on moral hypocrisy depends on the legitimacy of the power: When power was illegitimate, the moral-hypocrisy effect was reversed, with the illegitimately powerful becoming stricter in judging their own behavior than in judging other people’s behavior.

TL;DR: This article investigated the impact of self-activation on the occurrence and direction of social comparison effects and found that self-evaluative comparison effects are more likely to occur when self-related cognitions are made cognitively accessible.

TL;DR: It is revealed that under stereotype threat, only those comparison targets who are competent in the relevant domain (math), rather than in domains unrelated to math (athletics), enhanced participants' math test performance.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that social comparisons can have automatic influences on self-perceptions and tested by determining whether subliminal exposure to comparison information influences implicit and explicit self-evaluation, which showed that automatic comparisons are responsive to a person's perceptual needs, such that they only occur when people are uncertain about themselves.