CONTENTS
Figures = vii
Tables = viii
Contributors = ix
Acknowledgments = xiii
Introduction : Communion in social comparison – Back to the roots / Zlatan Križan ; Frederick X. Gibbons = 1
PART Ⅰ. CORE CONSIDERATIONS
1. Agency and communion in social comparisons / Kenneth D. Locke = 11
2. Social comparison in identity theory / Jan E. Stets ; Peter J. Burke = 39
3. When comparisons divide : Invidious emotions and their social control / Zlatan Križan ; Richard H. Smith = 60
PART Ⅱ. INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
4. Sparing others through social comparison / Anne L. Zell ; Julie Juola Exline = 95
5. Social comparisons within romantic relationships / Penelope Lockwood ; Rebecca T. Pinkus = 120
PART Ⅲ. GROUP LEVEL
6. Prototype-based social comparisons within groups : Constructing social identity to reduce self-uncertainty / Michael A. Hogg ; Amber M. Gaffney = 145
7. Bonding, hiding, and promoting : Three reactions to shared threat / Hart Blanton ; Melissa Burkley ; Edward Burkley = 175
PART Ⅳ. SOCIOCULTURAL LEVEL
8. Basic principles of social comparison : Does gender matter? / Serge Guimond ; Armand Chatard = 205
9. Culture and self-worth : Implications for social comparison processes and coping with threats to self-worth / Joni Y. Sasaki ; Deborah M. Ko ; Heejung S. Kim = 230
Index = 253
