Article History
Accepted: 24 March 2023
First Online: 2 June 2023
Declarations
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: Pascal Schlechter, Sarah Katenhusen and Nexhmedin Morina declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Additional informed consent was obtained from any subjects for whom identifying information appears in this paper.
: No animal studies were carried out by the authors for this article.
: All data and the R code to reproduce the current results are provided in an anonymized form in the open science framework (ExternalRef removed). We also provide the survey material that has been used. The present study is part of a larger project examining cognitive and social variables in relation to mental health outcomes. One manuscript of this project has been published on the development of the Comparison Standards Scale for Appearance (Morina et al., CitationRef removed), which we use in the present contribution to assess appearance-related comparisons. The initial project was not preregistered, but the current study was preregistered (ExternalRef removed) following suggestions for preregistrations of secondary data analyses (Akker et al., CitationRef removed). Hypotheses concerning the affective impact after engaging in comparison differ from the preregistration as explained in the main text and indicated by an *.