How am I doing compared to different standards? Comparative thinking and well-being following exposure to a vehicle-ramming attack.

What it found

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5. How we compare: A new approach to assess aspects of the comparison process for appearance-based standards and their associations with individual differences in wellbeing and personality measures.PloS one · 2023
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6. Comparisons Inform Me Who I Am: A General Comparative-Processing Model of Self-Perception.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021
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