Please use at least four appropriate scholarly references, and cite sources!

Think about how you use social comparison in your everyday life and on social media.

• Explain social comparison theory.
• Identify when people tend to engage in social comparison and with whom they tend to compare themselves. Give examples of how you engage in social comparison in everyday life and on social media.
• Explain the two-factor theory of emotion and its relevance to social comparison theory.
• Explain how self-discrepancy theory accounts for the general level of and changes in people's self-esteem and how it impacts emotional states such as shame, guilt, and anxiety. Give personal examples.
• Describe self-presentation and the similarities and differences of strategic self-presentation and self-verification.
• Describe how comparing yourself to others influences your self-perception and how you present yourself to others. Which social setting has a greater impact on your self-concept, everyday life, or social media platforms?