Social comparison is driving us to despair. It doesn’t have to
In the social media age, it seems impossible not to measure ourselves against others – but we can dodge the worst pitfalls
by Wojciech Kaftański
Wojciech Kaftański is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Jagiellonian University, Poland, and a research fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University, US. He is currently undertaking research funded by the Polish National Science Centre and the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship entitled ‘The Moral Psychology of Social Comparison: Nature and Normativity’.
Written by Wojciech Kaftański