How high is up? Calibrating social comparison in the real world.

A Theory of Social Comparison Processes

Léon Festinger · Human Relations · 1954 · 20.3K citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +12

The Campus as a Frog Pond: An Application of the Theory of Relative Deprivation to Career Decisions of College Men

James Davis · American Journal of Sociology · 1966 · 530 citations

Education, Higher Education, Psychology +16

Motivation as a determinant of upward comparison

Ladd Wheeler · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 1966 · 406 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +11

Threat as a determinant of downward comparison

Karl L. Hakmiller · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 1966 · 379 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +10

Related attributes in the choice of comparison others: It's there, but it isn't all there is

Ladd Wheeler, Richard Koestner, Robert Driver · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 1982 · 84 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +7