Social comparison: The end of a theory and the emergence of a field

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-21

  Buunk, Abraham P ^a   Gibbons, Frederick X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

New developments; Social comparison theory; Theory evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845642628     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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