Question

Kevin also does not start his english term paper until the weekend before it is due; however, when he calls his classmate samantha on monday to see how she is doing on the assignment, he feels much better about his procrastination because he is already working on the final draft (and she is still struggling with the rough draft). what term would best describe kevin's thinking?

Answer 1

The term that could be best described as the way that Kevin is thinking is a social comparison. Social comparison is being defined as a way of individual's determine his or her social worth in which could be based from how the person stack against other people in which we could see how Kevin felt better after finding out that Samantha was struggling more than him.