You know what you should do: Send a congratulatory email. Smile and clap. Hit the “like” button. But you don’t. Because if you’re honest with yourself, sometimes others’ successes make ...

I know a lot about comparing ourselves to others and what that does to us – both the positive and the negative effects -- because I’ve engaged in comparison more times than I can count. In my ...

Social comparison theory is the idea that individuals determine their own social and personal worth based on how they stack up against others. The theory was developed in 1954 by psychologist Leon ...

Limit social media (it tends to make comparison more noxious). If you do compare, use comparison as motivation (“If they can be that way, so can I!”). Shift your focus onto who you want to be ...

You’re not alone. In a survey, more than 75% of respondents had recently assessed their self-worth by comparing themselves to other people—and subsequently spent the day in an emotional slump ...

Nonsensical or not, the comparison is common. Some recent media examples can be found here, here, and here.In the stories, the minimum wage is compared to the amount of income needed to allow the ...