Assimilation and contrast in social comp
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Ulrich Kühnen; Bettina Hannover
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We extended existing research about self-construal activation to the study of social comparisons, speci®cally to self±other similarity ratings. Independent self-knowledge substantiates the notion of dissimilarity, whereas interdependent self-knowledge implies similarity with others. Therefore, perce