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The Nuance

How the ‘Frog-Pond Effect’ Distorts Your Self-Image

Few of us fully appreciate the role of social comparison in our well-being

For a 2012 study in PLOS One, researchers invited a young woman into a laboratory at Ohio University.

The woman learned that she would be taking part in an “aesthetic judgment”…

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Markham Heid

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.