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
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6 min readJun 2, 2021
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”…
