The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Gustav Jung "
 
Home Glossary / Lexicon Glossary U Upward social comparison

Login Form



Plagiate dieser Website werden automatisiert erfasst und verfolgt.

Pageviews all Databases

since 1998-04-01

Recommended

 
Upward social comparison
Upward social comparison when person compares himself/herself to others who are performing more effectively relative to himself/herself. It is the process whereby we compare ourselves to people who are better than we are on a particular trait or ability, in order to determine the standard of excellence
 
Please register or login to add your comments to this article.
Copyright © 2012 Psychology Glossary. All Rights Reserved.
Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.
 

Advertisement