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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Main Authors: Lei Wang, Xiaoshuang Zhang, Lu Li, Liang Meng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00476/full