Social comparison of competencies and social influence in aptitude tasks;Comparaisons sociales des compétences et dynamiques d'influence sociale dans les tâches d'aptitudes

Annee Psychologique

Volumn , Issue 3, 2003, Pages 469-496

  Mugny, Gabriel ^a   Butera, Fabrizio ^b   Quiamzade, Alain ^a   Dragulescu, Agatta ^a   Tomei, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Competence; Identity threat; Social comparison; Social influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041358904     PISSN: 00035033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3406/psy.2003.29647     Document Type: Article

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