Social comparison, self-consistency, and the concept of self.

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• Publication year

  1970

• Venue

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

• Publication date

  1970-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/H0029862PMID 5485940
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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