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- - The study replicates Stapel and Koomen's (2005) research on how competitive or cooperative mindsets influence self-evaluation when comparing oneself to someone who is better or worse.
- - In Experiment 1, participants responded to their self-evaluation after being exposed to information about comparison targets, while Experiment 2 provided additional feedback on both targets and themselves.
- - Results showed that a competitive or cooperative mindset does affect self-evaluation outcomes, but the impact found in this study was smaller compared to Stapel and Koomen’s original findings.
Article Abstract
Do people feel better or worse about themselves when working with someone who is better than they are? We present the first replication of the work of Stapel and Koomen (2005), who showed that being in a competitive vs. cooperative mindset moderates the effects of social comparison on self-evaluation. In Experiment 1, we present a close replication of Stapel and Koomen (2005, Study 2). Participants in competition/cooperation had to self-evaluate after receiving information about the personal characteristics of an upward/downward comparison target. In Experiment 2, we went further by providing feedback about both the comparison target and the self. Our results and a small-scale meta-analysis combining our experiments and Stapel and Koomen's (2005) confirm that a competitive/cooperative mindset moderates the impact of social comparison on self-evaluation; nevertheless, the effect size we found across the two experiments is clearly more modest than the one found in Stapel and Koomen's (2005) work.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4558468 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01337 | DOI Listing |
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