Archive for August 8th, 2006
Social Comparison
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006According to social psychologist Leon Festinger, social influence is a by-product of our quest for meaning. According to Festinger’s theory of social comparison, we compare ourselves with others socially, using others’ opinions and actions as a standard for judging our own. In brief, people seek information and compare their judgments with those of […]
Quotations About Cycling II
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of […]
