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Social Comparison Choices for Evaluating a Sexand Age-Related Ability

Jerry Suls

John Gastorf

John Lawhon

State University of New York at Albany

Comparison choices to evaluate performance on a sexand age-related ability were examined. Subjects took a test on which they were told that males or females of the same-age, older or younger excelled. Subjects preferred to compare their performance with same-age-same sex others on their first choice and with sameage-opposite sex others on their second choice. The results provide support for the Related Attribute hypothesis and suggest that sameage-opposite-sex comparisons are more preferred than dissimilar age-same-sex comparisons.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 1, 102-105 (1978)
DOI: 10.1177/014616727800400121
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