They say comparison is the thief of joy, and this, as it turns out, is one cliché that has a raft of empirical evidence backing it up. But there is another truth about social comparison: It’s pretty ...

The process of constantly evaluating our own behaviour, thoughts, emotions, relationships, jobs, houses, clothes, looks, lives to each other is one of the most damaging internal narratives we can have ...

Identifying a problem through expert analysis and research so we can begin using Comparison Culture as a catalyst for growth and positive change. There's something we have to talk about. It's ...

Comparison Culture is a huge problem for a lot of people, including young children. Comparison Culture is a pervasive phenomenon in which individuals habitually engage in the practice of measuring ...

We humans are comparison creatures. We are constantly measuring ourselves against other people. This attribute may have evolved as a means of helping us fit into the social hierarchy of the cultures ...

Jonathan Reardon is a researcher at Durham University. You can find him on Twitter @waterlego. He also runs @academicchatter. As graduate students, we find ourselves embedded in a system of metrics ...