Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Klein, W. M.P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Klein, W. M.P.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Effects of Objective Feedback and "Single Other" or "Average Other" Social Comparison Feedback on Performance Judgments and Helping Behavior

William M.P. Klein

University of Pittsburgh

In two studies, participants received positive or negative feedback about their performance on a verbal task and then provided hints to another person on a subsequent, different task. It was expected that participants would give more helpful hints after positive than after negative feedback but that this would be more apparent when the feedback was based on performance comparisons with the "average participant" than on comparisons with another person or an objective standard. This effect was expected to be mediated by judgments of one’s performance on the first task. These predictions were supported. Participants seemed aware of the effect of feedback on their hint choices, and their hint choices did not alter their affect levels. Also, participants receiving comparative (single or aggregated target) feedback exhibited changes in self-ascribed importance of the performance domain. Implications for social comparison theory and self-evaluation maintenance theory are discussed.

Key Words: social companion • helping behavior • self-evaluation maintenance • interpersonal processes

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 29, No. 3, 418-429 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167203251195
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Ann Fam MedHome page
R. Gramling, W. Klein, M. Roberts, M. E. Waring, D. Gramling, and C. B. Eaton
Self-Rated Cardiovascular Risk and 15-Year Cardiovascular Mortality
Ann. Fam. Med, July 1, 2008; 6(4): 302 - 306.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Pers Soc Psychol BullHome page
K. D. Locke
Personalized and Generalized Comparisons: Causes and Consequences of Variations in the Focus of Social Comparisons
Pers Soc Psychol Bull, February 1, 2007; 33(2): 213 - 225.
[Abstract] [PDF]