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42
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Overview

Ladd Wheeler is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their scholarly activities are situated within an academic context aligned with this institution.

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Best Publications

  • Social Comparison: Why, With Whom, and With What Effect?

    Jerry Suls;René Martin;Ladd Wheeler

  • Handbook of social comparison : theory and research

    Jerry M. Suls;Ladd Wheeler

  • Self‐Recording of Everyday Life Events: Origins, Types, and Uses

    Ladd Wheeler;Harry T. Reis

  • Social Comparison in Everyday Life

    Ladd Wheeler;Kunitate Miyake

  • Loneliness, social interaction, and sex roles.

    Ladd Wheeler;Harry Reis;John B. Nezlek

  • A social comparison theory meta-analysis 60+ years on.

    J. P. Gerber;Ladd Wheeler;Jerry Suls

  • On Being Rejected: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Research on Rejection.

    Jonathan Gerber;Ladd Wheeler

  • Studying social interaction with the Rochester interaction record

    Harry T. Reis;Ladd Wheeler

  • Collectivism-Individualism in Everyday Social Life: The Middle Kingdom and the Melting Pot

    Ladd Wheeler;Harry T. Reis;Michael Harris Bond

  • Sex differences in social participation

    Ladd Wheeler;John Nezlek

  • Motivation as a determinant of upward comparison

    Ladd Wheeler

  • Ostracism in everyday life.

    John B. Nezlek;Eric D. Wesselmann;Ladd Wheeler;Kipling D. Williams

  • Clarifying the role of social comparison in the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE): an integrative study.

    Pascal E. Huguet;Florence Dumas;Herbert Warren Marsh;Isabelle Regner

  • Physical attractiveness in social interaction.

    Harry T. Reis;John Nezlek;Ladd Wheeler

  • To dispel fantasies about the fantasy-based measure of fear of success.

    Miron Zuckerman;Ladd Wheeler

  • Toward a theory of behavioral contagion.

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  • Physical attractiveness in social interaction: II. Why does appearance affect social experience?

    Harry T. Reis;Ladd Wheeler;Nancy Spiegel;Michael H. Kernis

  • What is Beautiful is Culturally Good: The Physical Attractiveness Stereotype has Different Content in Collectivistic Cultures

    Ladd Wheeler;Ladd Wheeler;Youngmee Kim

  • The Social Mind: Cognitive and Motivational Aspects of Interpersonal Behavior

    Joseph P. Forgas;Kipling D. Williams;Ladd Wheeler

  • A Selective History of Classic and Neo-Social Comparison Theory

    Jerry Suls;Ladd Wheeler

  • Review of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 1

    Unknown

  • Social comparison theory

    Jerry Suls;Ladd Wheeler

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerry Suls
Jerry Suls University of Iowa
Harry T. Reis
Harry T. Reis University of Rochester
John B. Nezlek
John B. Nezlek University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University
Irwin Altman
Irwin Altman University of Utah
Kipling D. Williams
Kipling D. Williams Purdue University West Lafayette
Pascal Huguet
Pascal Huguet University of Clermont Auvergne
Hart Blanton
Hart Blanton Texas A&M University
Joseph P. Forgas
Joseph P. Forgas University of New South Wales
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis

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