Effects of Upward and Downward Social Comparison on Mood States
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- Published by Guilford Publications in Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
- Vol. 8 (1) , 14-31
- https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.1989.8.1.14
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