Taking Others as a Mirror: Contingent Social Comparison Promotes Task Engagement
Social comparison implemented in an informational while not controlling manner can be motivating. In order to directly examine the effect of contingent social comparison on one’s task engagement, we manipulated social comparison in an experimental study and adopted an electrophysiological approach t...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00476/full |