Investigating social comparison behaviour in an immersive virtual reality classroom based on eye-movement data.

ABSTRACT: Higher-achieving peers have repeatedly been found to negatively impact students' evaluations of their own academic abilities (i.e., Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect). Building on social comparison theory, this pattern is assumed to result from students comparing themselves to their classmates; however, based on existing research designs, it remains unclear how exactly students make use of social comparison information in the classroom. To determine the extent to which students (N = 353 sixth graders) actively attend and respond to social comparison information in the form of peers' achievement-related behaviour, we used eye-tracking data from an immersive virtual reality (IVR) classroom. IVR classrooms offer unprecedented opportunities for psychological classroom research as they allow to integ

SUBMITTER: Hasenbein L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10483041 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature