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@article{Festinger1954ATO,
  title={A Theory of Social Comparison Processes},
  author={Leon Festinger},
  journal={Human Relations},
  year={1954},
  volume={7},
  pages={117 - 140},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:18918768}
}

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