Handbook of social comparison : theory and research

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Social comparison: The end of a theory and the emergence of a field (2007, background): “…the process, has developed from a focused theoretical statement on the use of others for self-evaluation into a lively, varied, and complex area of research encompassing many diVerent paradigms, approaches, and applications (e.g., Buunk & Gibbons, 1997, 2000; Suls & Wheeler, 2000; Wheeler, 1991).”
Social Media Effects on Young Women’s Body Image Concerns: Theoretical Perspectives and an Agenda for Research (2014, background): “Social comparison theory, in its original version (Festinger 1954) and revised iterations (Suls and Wheeler 2000), states that people find it diagnostic and functional to compare themselves to others, particularly those who are similar on attributes that are central to their definition of self…”
Social comparison processes in organizations (2007, background): “…whose inXuential theory of social comparison introduced over a half century ago subsequently gave rise to more reWned conceptual developments (e.g., Mussweiler, 2003; Wood, 1989, 1996), resulting in a massive contemporary literature on social comparison processes (e.g., Suls & Wheeler, 2000).”