ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
“It Hurts, but…” Why People Keep on Checking Instagram Profiles
- Katja Corcoran
University of Graz
Abstract
Comparing our life with the perfect Instagram world could cause envy. Envy hurts, but could also motivate us to search for ways of improvement. In our experiment, female participants felt more pain but nevertheless spent more time on Instagram after viewing envy eliciting Instagram profiles.
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