Social comparisons at your fingertips: The importance of ingroup/outgroup status

Proceedings of the 3rd International Web Science Conference, WebSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Knobloch Westerwick, Silvia ^a   Westerwick, Axel ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ingroup; Optimal distinctiveness; Outgroup; Selective exposure; Self categorization; Self esteem; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

INGROUP; INGROUP/OUTGROUP; MINORITY GROUPS; ON-LINE EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL DISTINCTIVENESS; OUTGROUP; SELECTIVE EXPOSURE; SELF ESTEEM; SELF-CATEGORIZATION; SOCIAL COMPARISON;

EID: 84893284159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2527031.2527036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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