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Comparison-induced Effort

Comparison-Induced Effort is a motivational construct in self-improvement research denoting the incremental cognitive or behavioral exertion an individual invests in a task following exposure to upward or downward social comparisons, distinguishing it from other effort forms by its elicitation through comparative self-evaluative processes.

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2017–2026

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Social Comparison: Why, With Whom, and With What Effect?

Jerry Suls, René Martin, Ladd Wheeler · Current Directions in Psychological Science · 2002 · 996 citations

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Self-regulatory mechanisms governing the impact of social comparison on complex decision making.

Forest J. Jourden · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1991 · 560 citations

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Self-regulatory mechanisms governing the impact of social comparison on complex decision making.

Albert Bandura, Forest J. Jourden · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1991 · 414 citations

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SOCIAL COMPARISON AND EFFORT PROVISION: EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT

Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, Benedikt Herrmann et al. · Journal of the European Economic Association · 2014 · 246 citations

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The Effect of Relative Performance Information on Performance and Effort Allocation in a Multi-Task Environment

R. Lynn Hannan, Gregory P. McPhee, Andrew H. Newman et al. · The Accounting Review · 2012 · 215 citations

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Authors

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  1. BH
    Benedikt Herrmann

    University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 298 citations

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  2. AC
    Alain Cohn

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    3 publications · 298 citations

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  3. FS
    Frédéric Schneider

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    3 publications · 298 citations

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  4. EF
    Ernst Fehr

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    3 publications · 298 citations

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  5. MC
    Marie Claire Villeval

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    2 publications · 219 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    577 citations

  2. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    790 citations

  3. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    193 citations

  4. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    52 citations

  5. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    156 citations

  6. Cambridge School

    Lisbon, Portugal

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    52 citations

  7. Georgia State University

    Atlanta, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    662 citations

  8. Ross School

    East Hampton, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    156 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    5 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 3 publications · 84 citations

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  3. Journal of Educational Psychology

    2 publications · 244 citations

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  4. Industrial and Labor Relations Review

    1 publications · 188 citations

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  5. Brain Research

    1 publications · 52 citations

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