Social Comparison Choices for Evaluating a Sexand Age-Related Ability
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 4 (1) , 102-105
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727800400121
Abstract
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.Keywords
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