Defensive social comparisons and the constraints of reality

Social Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 147-167

  Stapel, Diederik A ^a   Schwinghammer, Saskia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 2442488132     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.22.1.147.30989     Document Type: Article

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