What Friends Are for! The Use of Routine Standards in Social Comparison

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 467-481

  Mussweiler, Thomas ^a   Rüter, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 0141707125     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.3.467     Document Type: Article

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