Frequent Social Comparisons and Destructive Emotions and Behaviors: The Dark Side of Social Comparisons

By Judith B. White, Ellen J. Langer, Leeat Yariv, J. Welch. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science

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• Seeing everyone else's highlight reels: How Facebook usage is linked to depressive symptoms. (2014, background): “However, our findings are consistent with other literature suggesting that engaging in frequent social comparisons of any kind may be deleterious to one’s mental well-being (White et al., 2006).”