Ethan Kross | How to Deal With The Voice in Your Head
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The Human Need to Self Present Is Powerful
We craft our appearances to influence how people perceive us all the time. This has always been the case, but then social media came along and gave us exponentially more control over how we do this. Engaging in this self presentation exercise can make us feel better satisfying our own need to appear positively in the eyes of others. But then you want to say, although posting glamour shots of ourselves, you know, causes us to feel worse. That's because at the same time we're motivated to present ourselves positively, which may lead us to feel better,. We're also driven to compare ourselves with others and social media switches the social comparison hardware in our brain into overcast.
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