Glancing up or down: Mood management and selective social comparisons on social networking sites

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 33-39

  Johnson, Benjamin K ^a   Knobloch Westerwick, Silvia ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mood management; Selective exposure; Self enhancement; Social comparison; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

CAREER SUCCESS; SELECTIVE EXPOSURE; SELF ENHANCEMENTS; SOCIAL COMPARISON; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; TWO-DIMENSION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84907802755     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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