A THEORY OF SOCIAL COMPARISON PROCESSES
A THEORY OF SOCIAL COMPARISON PROCESSES
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DOI：
10.1177/001872675400700202
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发表时间：
1954-05-01
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影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Festinger, Leon
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作者：
Festinger, Leon
在本文中，我们将进一步发展以前发表的关于社会群体舆论影响过程的理论（7）。这一进一步的发展使我们能够将该理论扩展到处理除意见形成之外的其他领域，在这些领域中，社会比较是重要的。具体地说，我们将在下面阐述该理论如何应用于能力和意见的评价和评估。社会心理学领域的这些理论和假设经常被认为是“合理的”。“合理性”通常指理论或假设是否符合一个人的直觉或常识。从这个意义上说，这里要提出的许多理论都不是“似是而非的”。然而，这个理论确实解释了大量的数据，并导致了可检验的推导。三个实验，专门设计来测试预测从这个扩展的理论，现在已经完成（5，12，19）。它们都提供了很好的佐证。我们将在下面几页中发展这个理论，并提供相关的数据。
In this paper we shall present a further development of a previously pub-lished theory concerning opinion influence processes in social groups (7). This further development has enabled us to extend the theory to deal with other areas, in addition to opinion formation, in which social comparison is important. Specifically, we shall develop below how the theory applies to the appraisal and evaluation of abilities as well as opinions. Such theories and hypotheses in the area of social psychology are frequently viewed in terms of how “plausible” they seem.“Plausibility” usually means whether or not the theory or hypothesis fits one's intuition or one's common sense. In this meaning much of the theory which is to be presented here is not “plausible". The theory does, however, explain a considerable amount of data and leads to testable derivations. Three experiments, specifically designed to test predictions from this extension of the theory, have now been completed (5, 12, 19). They all provide good corroboration. We will in the following pages develop the theory and present the relevant data.