PSYC 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Social Comparison Theory
22 Jul 2013
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Those that you are closest to in your social network are usually the ones that you turn to first when you need help with a problem. People have ways of getting and giving support that makes it low profile and people don"t acknowledge that support is given. Example: study of how high school teachers get help with problems related to students or the curriculum. He would sit in the teacher"s lounge and observed them. Found that when teachers had a problem, they would tell a story about what happened. Support groups do the same sort of thing; a lot of the time is devoted to experience swapping, sharing their experiences. Self-help groups make it so that no one individual is always the person receiving help; every one gets and gives help, changes at different times. Creates equality when it comes to experience among individuals. Exchanging their experiential knowledge as opposed to getting expert knowledge from doctors, psychologists, etc.
