A Theory of Social Comparison Processes

Festinger, L. (1954). A Theory of Social Comparison Processes. Human Relations, 7(2), 117-140.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1954

DOI

10.1177/001872675400700202

Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/001872675400700202

Cited from

psychology

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• Conformity
  • It separates two quantities — what the agent privately holds and what the agent expresses or does — and names the pull that bends the second toward the perceived consensus, a coupling Festinger (1954) anchored in his social comparison theory, where people in the absence of objective standards calibrate their judgments against others.

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