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Helmut Appel
Researcher at University of Cologne
Publications - 3
Citations - 437
Helmut Appel is an academic researcher from University of Cologne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social comparison theory & Jealousy. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 324 citations.
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The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression
TL;DR: In their Facebook profiles, users communicate abundant social comparison information conveying mainly positive self-portrayals, and thereby, social networking sites like Facebook provide a fertile ground for envy as discussed by the authors.
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Social Comparison, Envy, and Depression on Facebook: A Study Looking at the Effects of High Comparison Standards on Depressed Individuals
TL;DR: In a quasi-experimental online study, depressed and nondepressed participants indicated their self-esteem and were then presented with specifically set up Facebook profiles that were either attractive or unattractive.
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"I Know What I Like" - Indecisiveness Is Unrelated to Behavioral Indicators of Evaluation Difficulties
TL;DR: This paper showed that indecisiveness is not characterized by difficulties when evaluating familiar everyday objects, regardless of type of evaluation object, equivalence of evaluation and decision, and whether evaluation difficulty was based on explicit or implicit evaluations.