Abstract
The present study examined the interrelations among performance in school, friendship choices in the classroom, and the importance of various school-related' activities for a child's self-definition. Children named as friends those classmates whose performance (both actual and distorted) was better than their own on irrelevant activities and somewhat inferior to their own on relevant activities. There was also a striking similarity effect. Friends' overall performance was highly similar to the subject's own overall performance, and both the subjects and friends performed better on the subject's relevant activity than on the subject's irrelevant activity. The performance of a distant other, in this case a disliked other, was derogated on both relevant and irrelevant activities.
Keywords
FriendshipPsychologySocial psychologySubject (documents)Similarity (geometry)Developmental psychology
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- 1984
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 561-574
- Citations
- 123
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Abraham Tesser,
Jennifer L. Campbell,
Monte D. Smith
(1984).
Friendship choice and performance: Self-evaluation maintenance in children..
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, 46
(3)
, 561-574.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.46.3.561
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- DOI
- 10.1037/0022-3514.46.3.561