Behavioral & Decision Making
Social Comparison
Leon Festinger's theory that people determine their own social and personal worth by measuring themselves against others.
In plain language
People evaluate their own opinions and abilities by comparing themselves to others. Leaderboards, progress percentiles, and "X people viewed this" all trigger this.
In the wild
Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.
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