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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Midgley, Claire Elizabeth
Other Authors: Lockwood, Penelope
Language:en_ca
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43235