Social comparison: Motives, standards, and mechanisms.

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Follow me and like my beautiful selfies: Singapore teenage girls' engagement in self-presentation and peer comparison on social media (2016, background): “Corcoran, Crusius, and Mussweiler (2011) argued that social comparison is not unidirectionally upward and both selfenhancement and self-improvement can be motives for social comparison.”
Understanding the Disparate Behavioral Consequences of LMX Differentiation: The Role of Social Comparison Emotions (2018, background): “Indeed, “[u]pward comparisons can motivate people and can provide information on how to make progress” (Corcoran et al., 2011: 124).”
The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression (2016, background): “Comparison and envy in an SNS context Social comparison is a fundamental psychological process governing how people think about themselves or others [13].”
Explaining Females’ Envy Toward Social Media Influencers (2018, background): “However, upward comparison might also be detrimental because one’s positive self-image can be threatened (see Corcoran et al., 2011).”
Gamification of health professions education: a systematic review (2020, methodology): “According to the Social Comparison Theory, social comparison is a fundamental mechanism for modifying judgment and behaviour through the inner drive individuals have to gain accurate self-evaluations (Corcoran et al. 2011; Festinger 1954).”