Why Everyone's Life Looks Better Than Yours (It's a Psychology Trap)

Why does everyone else's life look better than yours? In this video we break down the psychology of social comparison, from Leon Festinger's 1954 theory to the brain scans, Stanford studies and social media experiments that explain why scrolling can make you feel behind in life. In this video you'll learn: • Why your brain automatically compares you to other people • How social media highlight reels distort reality (Stanford, 2011) • What envy does inside your brain (Takahashi, 2009) • Why a cousin's promotion hurts more than a celebrity's fame (Tesser) • Why some people would earn less just to be ahead of others (Solnick & Hemenway, 1998) • The simple 30-minute habit linked to less loneliness and depression (University of Pennsylvania, 2018) • How to stop comparing yourself to others and compare yourself to the only person who matters: yourself Researchers and studies mentioned: Leon Festinger (1954), Robin Dunbar, Alexander Jordan (2011), Hui-Tzu Chou and Nicholas Edge (2012), Hidehiko Takahashi (2009), Hanna Krasnova (2013), Sonja Lyubomirsky and Lee Ross (1997), Abraham Tesser, Sara Solnick and David Hemenway (1998), Mark Leary, Melissa Hunt (2018). If this changed how you see your feed, subscribe for more psychology explained with stickman animation. #psychology #socialmedia #socialcomparison