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Social psychology
a model of ability self-assessment in which people use a similar other's past performance as a stand-in for whether they can succeed at a new task.In social psychology, proxy model of social comparison refers to a model of ability self-assessment in which people use a similar other's past performance as a stand-in for whether they can succeed at a new task. This meaning comes from Wheeler (1997) in Personality and Social Psychology Review.[1]