Retraction to Unconscious and spontaneous and ... complex: The three selves model of social comparison assimilation and contrast [Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, (2008) 1018-1032] doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.94.6.1018;Unconscious and Spontaneous and ... Complex: The Three Selves Model of Social Comparison Assimilation and Contrast

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1018-1032

  Blanton, Hart ^a   Stapel, Diederik A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

assimilation; contrast; possible selves; social comparison; social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449087394     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031266     Document Type: Erratum

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