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Social Comparison and Depression

The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1988
It has been suggested that a central factor in depression is the experience of feeling different from others. This study set out to examine the relationship between pre-attributional consensus judgments, perceived trait discrepancy from others, and depression.
A, Furnham, C R, Brewin
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Social Comparison

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2007
The past and current states of research on social comparison are reviewed with regard to a series of major theoretical developments that have occurred in the past 5 decades. These are, in chronological order: (1) classic social comparison theory, (2) fear-affiliation theory, (3) downward comparison theory, (4) social comparison as social cognition, and
Buunk, Abraham P., Gibbons, Frederick X.
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Social Comparison Processes

2017
Social comparisons are important determinants of subjective well-being. That is, subjective well-being depends not on only on one’s absolute position in terms of, for instance, status and health but also on one’s position relative to others. The present chapter provides a review of the most important literature on the relationships between social ...
Dijkstra, Pieternel, Buunk, Abraham P.
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Envy and Social Comparison

2018
Upward social comparison can give rise to the emotion of envy: the pain caused by the good fortune of others. We explain what envy is, and what the possible function of envy is to an organism experiencing it. We provide an overview of past work on envy, the distinction between two subtypes (benign and malicious envy), possible antecedents of envy ...
Niels van de Ven, Marcel Zeelenberg
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Country Differences in Social Comparison on Social Media

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2021
Social comparison is a common focus in discussions of online social media use, and differences in its frequency, causes, and outcomes may arise from country or cultural differences. To understand how these differences play a role in experiences of social comparison on Facebook, a survey of 37,729 people across 18 countries was paired with respondents ...
Justin Cheng   +2 more
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Social Comparison Is Basic to Social Psychology

The American Journal of Psychology, 2008
Social comparison is one of the classic social psychological themes that many social psychologists like, appreciate, and respect. In fact, some argue that social comparison theory seems to be everybody's second most favorite theory. Why are most of us such fans of social comparison theory? Undoubtedly, one reason is that social comparison processes are
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Social Identity and Social Comparison

2000
Social comparison is a pervasive and fundamental feature of group life. People compare themselves with fellow group members, they compare themselves with people in other groups, and they compare their own group with other groups. From these comparisons emerge group norms, group structure, and intergroup relations, which in turn provide the framework ...
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Social comparison

2022
Social comparisons—comparisons between the self and others—are a fundamental mechanism influencing people’s judgments, experiences, and behavior. Psychological research supports the notion that people constantly engage in social comparisons. Arguably, whenever they receive information about how others are, what others can and cannot do, or what others ...
Crusius, J, Corcoran, K, Mussweiler, T M
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