Social Comparison and the Idealized Images of Advertising
        
            Journal of Consumer Research
      
  
    
      Volume
  
            18
      
  
    
        
            Journal Articles
      
  
    
      
        
            Marketing
      
  
    
      
        
            June 1991
      
  
    
  Richins, Marsha L. (1991), "Social Comparison and the Idealized Images of Advertising," Journal of Consumer Research, 18 (June), 71-83. Reprinted, Classic Articles on Gender and Advertising, L. Scott (editor), University of Chicago Press, 2003.