Reply to van Hoorn: Social comparisons of "enough" are an informational signal

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599; payne@unc.edu.
² Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0044.
³ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.

Comment

B Keith Payne et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017.

. 2017 Jun 20;114(25):E4900.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1707044114. Epub 2017 Jun 12.

¹ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599; payne@unc.edu.
² Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0044.
³ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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