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Metadata
- Authors
- Tesser, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Georgia (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tesser, Abraham
- Venue
- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 181-227
- ISSN
- 0065-2601 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1703134475
- Cited by
- 1,878
- References
- 97
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- FWCI
- 99.68
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advances in experimental social psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- social behavior, social comparison, self-theory, performance quality, reflection process, comparison processes, model fit
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