You may have read or listened to my previous blog post about social comparison and how it affects you. When we think about both upward and downward social comparison, I discussed in the previous blog that “many psychologists consider social comparison something that happens to us” (Brown, p. 21). Check out this two-part blog series to learn about responding to others in regard to social comparison.
Read More“Comparison is the crush of conformity from one side and competition from the other – it’s trying to simultaneously fit in and stand out.”
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