Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...

Well-being development at the end of life is often characterized by steep deteriorations, but individual differences in these terminal declines are substantial and not yet well understood. This study moved beyond typical consideration of health predictors and explored the role of social...

Haushaltspanels wurden weltweit vorwiegend zu dem Zweck begonnen, die Dynamik der Einkommensverteilung und -armut abzubilden; die erste Panelstudie, die 1968 begonnene PSID, führt diesen Aspekt sogar im Namen: Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Entsprechend liegen sehr viele Veröffentlichungen...