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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes

Hypothesis I: There exists, in the human organism, a drive to evaluate his opinions and his abilities. While opinions and abilities may, at first glance, seem to be quite differ...

1954 Human Relations 19493 citations

Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems

Individuals die, populations disappear, and species become extinct. That is one view of the world. But another view of the world concentrates not so much on presence or absence ...

1973 Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 16805 citations