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Social comparison: The end of a theory and the emergence of a field
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- Buunk, A. P., & Gibbons, F. X.
- Venue
- Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-01
- Volume
- 102
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-21
- ISSN
- 0749-5978 (ISSN-L)
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- W2128443239
- Cited by
- 1,012
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 34.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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