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This book examines how standards and expectancies affect judgments of others and the self. Standards are points of comparison, expectancies are beliefs about the future, and both serve as frames of reference against which current events and people (including the self) are experienced. The central theme of the book is that judgments can be characterized as either assimilative or contrastive in nature. Assimilation occurs when the target of evaluation (another person, the self) is pulled toward or judged consistently with the standard or expectation, and contrast occurs when the target is...

This book examines how standards and expectancies affect judgments of others and the self. Standards are points of comparison; expectancies are beliefs about the future, and both serve as frames of reference against which current events and people, including the self, are experienced. The central theme of this book is that judgments can be characterized as either assimilative or contrastive in nature. Assimilation occurs when the target of evaluation, another person or the self, is pulled toward or judged consistently with the standard or expectation, and contrast occurs when the target is...