心理学
对比度(视觉)
相似性(几何)
社会心理学
同化(音韵学)
光学(聚焦)
社会比较理论
认知心理学
语言学
人工智能
计算机科学
图像(数学)
光学
物理
哲学
作者
Thomas Mussweiler,Katja Rüter,Kai Epstude
标识
DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.87.6.832
摘要
Social comparisons influence self-evaluations in multiple ways. Sometimes self-evaluations are assimilated toward a given standard. At other times, they are contrasted away from the standard. On the basis of the selective accessibility model (T. Mussweiler, 2003a), the authors hypothesized that assimilation results if judges engage in the comparison process of similarity testing and selectively focus on similarities to the standard, whereas contrast occurs if judges engage in dissimilarity testing and selectively focus on differences. If these alternative comparison mechanisms are indeed at play, then assimilative and contrastive social comparisons should be accompanied by diverging informational foci on similarities versus differences. Results of 5 studies support this reasoning, demonstrating that assimilation results under conditions that foster similarity testing, whereas contrast occurs under conditions that foster dissimilarity testing. Furthermore, assimilative social comparisons are accompanied by a general informational focus on similarities, whereas contrastive comparisons are accompanied by a focus on differences.
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