Talk:Social comparison bias

Impact of recent student edits

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Merger proposal

I propose that social comparison bias be merged into social comparison theory. I think that the content in the social comparison bias article can easily be explained in the context of social comparison theory, and would make a welcome expansion of said article.

See the social comparison theory talk page.

PostScarcity (talk) 01:04, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Incorrect title

Before the edits of the students (circa 2012), the article was talking about the social comparison bias, as outlined by Garcia et al:

[W]e hypothesize that people tend to protect their comparison contexts by making recommendations that prevent others from surpassing them on relevant dimensions on which they have high standing, because such dimensions are especially important to their self-esteem.

• Garcia, S.; Song, H.; Tesser, A. (2010). "Tainted recommendations: The social comparison bias" (PDF). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 113 (2): 97–101. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.06.002. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Now the article talks about generic "dangers of social comparison" and is probably an original synthesis. In any case it's not talking about the social comparison bias anymore. I suggest to move this new article, if at all rescuable, and restore the old one here. Ihaveacatonmydesk (talk) 23:59, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

btw, this is the last correct version of the article, before it became an essay on social comparison in modern times Ihaveacatonmydesk (talk) 11:35, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

and here is the list of citations the garcia paper has on gscholar https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=17628220480392500142&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en Ihaveacatonmydesk (talk) 11:41, 7 June 2016 (UTC)