ICPS

2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019

“It Hurts, but…” Why People Keep on Checking Instagram Profiles

Paris, France · March 2019

Posters · Social Psychology

  • 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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