Work & Organizations
📅 April 12, 2026 ⏱ 11 min read

Social Comparison and Its Effects on Self-Esteem

Executive Summary:Humans constantly gauge themselves by comparing to others. Social comparison—a natural process first theorized by Festinger (1954)—involves evaluating one’s own qualities against someone else’s. It can beupward(comparing to someone...

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Neuroscience
📅 April 12, 2026 ⏱ 21 min read

The Role of Attention in Human Behavior

Executive Summary Attention is the cognitive and neural process that selects information for processing amid a world of competing stimuli. Classic definitions emphasize that attention “takes possession by the mind…of...

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