The influence of social comparison with less fortunate others on task performance: The role of gender motivations or appropriate norms |
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Authors: | Pascal Huguet Jean-Marc Monteil |
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Affiliation: | 1. Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale de la Cognition, CNRS-URA 1719, Université Blaise Pascal, 34 Avenue Carnot, 63006, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Abstract: | French male and female children performed a cognitive-perceptual task while anticipating or not public comparisons of their score with probably less fortunate others at a time when concerns about fitting in to social expectations were maximized. As predicted, boys performed better and girls poorer when social comparison was anticipated than when it was not. This suggested that task performance can depend on the compatibility of the social context of cognition with gender motivations or appropriate norms. |
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