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Social comparison, social attractiveness and evolution: How might they be related?
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“After all, social comparisons did not emerge with SNSs; it is a phylogenetically ancient ability that has likely been instrumental to navigating social hierarchies throughout human evolutionary history (Benítez and Brosnan, 2020; Gilbert et al., 1995).”
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“Even more so, according to Gilbert, Price, and Allan (1995), the need to compare the self with others is found in many other species as well, and has evolved as a very adaptive mechanism for sizing up one’s competitors.”
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“To date measures of social comparison (Allan & Gilbert, 1995) and submissive behaviour (Gilbert & Allan, 1994; Gilbert et al. 1995b, Allan & Gilbert, 1997) have been developed and found satisfactory.”
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- Gilbert, P., Price, J., & Allan, S.
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- New Ideas in Psychology
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- Elsevier BV
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- 1995-07
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- 13
- Issue
- 2
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- 149-165
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- 0732-118X (ISSN-L)
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- en
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- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Keywords
- social comparison, social attractiveness, intrasexual selection, reciprocal exchange, resource holding potential, self-concept, self-esteem, phylogeny, human evolution
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