Social comparison and performance: Experimental evidence on the fair wage–effort hypothesis

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Social comparison choices in the classroom: further evidence for students' upward comparison tendency and its beneficial impact on performance

✍ Pascal Huguet; Florence Dumas; Jean M. Monteil; Nicolas Genestoux 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 143 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract Blanton and colleagues (1999) found that children who nominated a comparison‐target in several courses chose same‐sex students who slightly outperformed them in class. This had a beneficial effect on children's course grades, which were also independently predicted by comparative evalua