Social comparison bias

What it is

Judging our worth by comparison with others, and tending to dislike or undermine people who are better than us at something.

Related

• In-group bias bias
  Comparisons are most keenly felt with people in our own group.
• Contrast effect bias
  Judging ourselves against those nearby is a contrast effect applied to people.
• Envy bias
  Envy is the emotion that social comparison produces.

Appears in

• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#72: Social comparison bias

References

• Wikipedia: Social comparison bias en.wikipedia.org
• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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