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The Ups and Downs of Thinking About a Successful Other: Self Construals and the Consequences of Social Comparisons

Kemmelmeier, Markus; Oyserman, Daphna (2001)

We hypothesized that the consequences of upward social comparisons are mediated by independent versus interdependent content of self‐construals. Independent self‐construals emphasize personal uniqueness; thus comparison ...