PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Stanley Schachter, Social Comparison Theory, Psy
16 Jul 2020
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People engage in social comparison in states of uncertainty, when more objective means of self-evaluation are not available. When we evaluate our own preferences, look to others who are similar to us in relevant ways. People often cope with personal inadequacies by focusing on others who. Facebook depression the more time people spent on facebook, the more unhappy are less able or less fortunate than themselves they were the link between facebook usage and self-evaluation depends on whom we compare ourselves to. People on facebook, as in life more generally, tend to portray themselves in overly flattering ways which increases the likelihood that the social comparisons we make are not personally favorable. More facebook time that people passively scroll through other people"s pages rather than directly interacting with others the worse they felt. Inject some with epinephrine and tell them what to expect, inject some with placebo, inject some with epinephrine and don"t tell what to expect.
