Keeping in Touch or Keeping Score? Social Comparisons on Facebook
In face-to-face contexts, individuals typically make one social comparison per day and make more self-enhancing downward comparisons (to worse-off others) than potentially threatening upward comparisons (to better-off others). However, online social networks such as Facebook may be radically alteri...
Main Author: | Midgley, Claire Elizabeth |
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Other Authors: | Lockwood, Penelope |
Language: | en_ca |
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2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43235 |
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