The emotional responses of browsing Facebook: Happiness, envy, and the role of tie strength

By Ruoyun Lin, Sonja Utz. Computers in Human Behavior, 2015

312 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Highlights • Positive emotions are more prevalent than negative emotions while browsing Facebook.• Users are happier when a positive post comes from a strong tie rather than a weak tie.• Similarly, users experience more benign envy when a post comes from a strong tie.• The experience of malicious envy is independent of tie strength.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Jiyoung Chae
2. N. van de Ven
3. Chloé Briggs
4. John Jonides
5. Ethan Kross
6. Dian A. de Vries
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8. Derrick Wirtz

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Jiyoung Chae
2. J. Crusius
3. N. van de Ven
4. Chloé Briggs
5. John Jonides
6. Ethan Kross
7. Dian A. de Vries
8. A. Schoemann

In Human-Computer Interaction

1. N. van de Ven
2. Jiyoung Chae

Citations in the corpus

• Explaining Females’ Envy Toward Social Media Influencers (2018, background): “Individuals can be happy about close friends’ positive postings but not about those of distant friends (Lin & Utz, 2015; Liu et al., 2016).”
• Do Social Network Sites Enhance or Undermine Subjective Well‐Being? A Critical Review (2017, background): “It is notable that in a recent study, participants reported experiencing positive emotions more often than envy upon reading positive Facebook posts (Lin & Utz, 2015).”
• How and Why Social Media Affect Subjective Well-Being: Multi-Site Use and Social Comparison as Predictors of Change Across Time (2020, background): “2016), reassurance seeking (Nesi and Prinstein 2015), positive and negative emotions while browsing (Lin and Utz 2015), fear of missing out (Beyens et al.”
• Social Comparison as the Thief of Joy: Emotional Consequences of Viewing Strangers’ Instagram Posts (2018, background): “Social comparison is not the only process through which browsing others ’ social media posts can have emotional consequences (Lin & Utz, 2015).”
• Envy and Its Consequences: Why It Is Useful to Distinguish between Benign and Malicious Envy (2016, background): “Research on Facebook use found that with greater “tie strength,” people experience more benign envy when the other was better off (Lin & Utz, 2015).”
• The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression (2016, background): “For example, stronger relational ties increase benign but not malicious envy in response to a friend’s post [57].”