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Author Biernat, Monica

Title Standards and expectancies : contrast and assimilation in judgments of self and others / Monica Biernat
Published New York : Psychology Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations
Series Essays in social psychology
Essays in social psychology.
Contents Standards and expectancies: an introduction and overview -- Judging others and the self: contextual factors affecting assimilation and contrast -- Models of assimilation and contrast -- Self and other exemplars as standards for judging others -- Stereotypes and stereotyping of others -- Beyond assimilation: toward a broader view of stereotyping effects -- Internalized guides as standards for judging the self -- Stereotypes as standards for judging the self: self-stereotyping -- Other people as standards: social comparison -- Assimilation and contrast revisited
Summary Began working on this book by accident. Sometime around 1998, I was asked by Abe Tesser and Norbert Schwarz to contribute a chapter to their volume Intraindividual Processes, which was to be part of the Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology (2001). The assigned topic was "standards, expectancies, and social comparison," and I dutifully produced a chapter with the help of my then graduate student, Laura Billings. However, I went a bit overboard and ended up with a document four times as long as the editors had requested. The problem was that I kept discovering interesting research and theory
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-220) and indexes
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Subject Social perception.
Self-perception.
Judgment.
Comparison (Psychology)
Social Perception
Self Concept
Judgment
comparison.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
Comparison (Psychology)
Judgment
Self-perception
Social perception
Sociale waarneming.
Zelfwaarneming.
Verwachtingen.
Sociale vergelijking.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Judgment.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203338936
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9780203942468
0203942469
9781841690681
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9786610267989
6610267987