According to this theory, people are social because they have a basic need to relate their behaviours, feelings, and beliefs to other people in order to help them assess the level of their abilities and to determine whether their responses are normal. This is the __________.
A)evolutionary theory
B)theory of social comparison
C)theory of humanistic psychology
D)psychoanalytic theory

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The theory of social comparison, proposed by Leon Festinger in 1954, suggests that individuals have an innate drive to evaluate their own opinions and abilities by comparing themselves to others, in order to reduce uncertainty in these domains and learn how to define the self.

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