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Social comparison: The end of a theory and the emergence of a field
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The past and current states of research on social comparison are reviewed in this paper with regard to a series of major theoretical developments that have occurred in the past 5 decades, including classic social comparison theories, fear-affiliation theory, downward comparison theory, social comparison as social cognition and individual differences in social comparison.About:
This article is published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.The article was published on 2007-01-01. It has received 724 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social comparison theory & Social cognition.read more
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Making Sense of the Meaning Literature: An Integrative Review of Meaning Making and Its Effects on Adjustment to Stressful Life Events.
TL;DR: An integrated model of meaning making is presented, which distinguishes between the constructs of global and situational meaning and between "meaning-making efforts" and "meaning made," and it elaborates subconstructs within these constructs.
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Social comparison processes in organizations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically analyze the role of social comparison processes in organizations and describe how they have been used to explain six key areas of organizational inquiry: (1) organizational justice, (2) performance appraisal, (3) virtual work environments, affective behavior in the workplace, (4) stress, and (5) leadership.
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Who compares and despairs? The effect of social comparison orientation on social media use and its outcomes.
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between social comparison orientation (SCO) and negative psychological outcomes and found that participants high in SCO had poorer self-perceptions, lower self-esteem, and more negative affect balance than their low-SCO counterparts after engaging in brief social comparisons on Facebook.
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Tournaments Without Prizes: Evidence from Personnel Records
TL;DR: It is found that merely providing workers' relative position in the distribution of pay and productivity leads to a large and long-lasting increase in productivity that is costless to the firm.
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Where do I stand? Examining the effects of leader-member exchange social comparison on employee work behaviors.
TL;DR: It is argued that subjective ratings by individuals of their LMX compared to the LMXs of coworkers (labeled LMX social comparison, or LMXSC) explain unique and meaningful variance in outcomes beyond LMX and the actual standing of those individuals in theLMX distribution, referred to as relative LMX, or RLMX.
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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
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