Downward social comparison is a defensive tendency that people use as a means of self-evaluation.

Downward comparison theory emphasizes the positive effects of comparisons in increasing one ’ s subjective well-being ( Wills, 1981 ).

Social comparison activity under threat: Downward

Downward comparison principles in social psychology.

The Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral has several nihilistic themes and concepts throughout the overall storyline, with the narrator rejecting the world and the concept of God and attempting to forge his own versions ( with lines such as " God is dead / And no one cares / If there is a Hell / I'll see you there ").

* The opening sounds of " Mr. Self Destruct " on the Nine Inch Nails 1994 album The Downward Spiral is a sample from THX 1138 in which a man is being beaten by a prison guard.

Downward motion of the easterlies is usually more irregular than that of the westerlies.

Downward displacement ( or gravity-type ): As steam enters the chamber, it fills the upper areas first as it is less dense than air.

It is in fact thought that the lack of FTI toxicity may be due to a failure to fully inhibit Ras: FTIs actually target normal cells but alternative pathway allow these cells to survive ( Downward J, 2003 ).

Downward rotation would be prevented by co-contraction of other muscles that elevate the spine, the upper fibers of the trapezius, which is an upward rotator.

Alternatively, the home of the Dvergar is called Niðavellir or the ' Downward Fields ' ( Völuspá 37 ).

Downward to the Earth is a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg.

Adho mukha śvānāsana, adho mukha shvanasana ( ; ; IAST: Adho Mukha Śvānāsana ), Downward-Facing Dog Pose, Downward Dog, or Down Dog, is an asana.

Downward movement of tubing ( tripping in ) creates a pressure that is exerted on the bottom of a well.

The demo was shelved until after the success of Nine Inch Nails ' The Downward Spiral, when it was re-released.

To date, only one album has been released, In Streams, on the Martians Go Home label, set up by the band themselves to release the vinyl version of " Downward Is Heavenward " and the re-release of Electra 2000 on CD.

Others attempt the task, but none succeed like Leonard Welsted ( who had satirized Pope, Gay, and Arbuthnot's play Three Hours after Marriage in 1717 ), for he goes in swinging his arms like a windmill ( to splash all with mud ): " No crab more active in the dirty dance ,/ Downward to climb, and backward to advance " ( II 296-7 ).

Downward the earth was dug, until I reached rock in the earth.

" On the ' Downward Control ' of Extratropical Diabatic Circulations by Eddy-Induced Mean Zonal Forces " Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 48, Issue 4 ( February 1991 ) pp. 651 – 678.

* Belzagor — A planet colonized by Earth, whose natives are the elephant-like nildoror, in Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg.

( Margaret Kartomi, 2011, Upward and Downward Classifications of Musical Instruments-musicology. ff, cuni. cz )

* Downward counterfactuals: We compare our situation with those even worse ( e. g., " Yes, I procrastinated and got a B-in the course, but I didn't fail like one other student did .").

While writing The Downward Spiral, Reznor lived in the Tate mansion where the Manson family murders took place.

* Industrial band Nine Inch Nails covered the song " Memorabilia " in 1994 which appeared on the " Closer " single and on their 10th anniversary re-release of The Downward Spiral during 2004.

In 1994, he worked again with Nine Inch Nails, this time on The Downward Spiral.

Downward they destroy another object.

Downward compression reduces loud sounds over a certain threshold while quiet sounds remain unaffected.

This was only shown once during the original broadcast, was edited out of all repeats, and generally seen as a sign that the long-awaited follow-up to The Downward Spiral would be released early in 1999.

Non-standard egress systems include Downward Track ( used for some crew positions in bomber aircraft, including the B-52 Stratofortress ), Canopy Destruct ( CD ) and Through-Canopy Penetration ( TCP ), Drag Extraction, Encapsulated Seat, and even Crew Capsule.

Early models of the F-104 Starfighter were equipped with a Downward Track ejection seat due to the hazard of the T-tail.

2, 3: ' Downward ', PlayStation, & 4 ) – The host of the German volumes.

* YDKJ Vol. 3: ' Downward – carbon copy of U. S. Vol. 4 (" The Ride ") in German

Such a comparison reminds us that in employing low characters in his works Faulkner is recording actuality in the South and moreover is following a long-established literary precedent.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

Look at the physical features of the land to determine how desirable it is for use, what can be done to correct the faults, and what it will cost to make the area meet your needs in comparison to other sites.

Selecting bunks by economic comparison is usually an individual problem.

It is evident that many marked and striking differences exist between lungs when an inter-species comparison is made.

Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.

Where there is comparison or contrast, dominant stresses normally operate to center attention.

) These general facts are mentioned to make clear that the total situation in the two families is similar enough to warrant comparison.

The practical operational problem of lexicostatistics is the establishment of a basic list of items of meaning against which the particular forms or terms of languages can be matched as the medium of comparison.

And I have established that the action of municipal, county, or state school boards or boards of education is small, infinitesimally small in comparison with the number of districts.

It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.

Decide first what the place is worth to you and your family as a home in comparison with what it would cost to live in town.

The present understanding of the Apiales is fairly recent and is based upon comparison of DNA sequences by phylogenetic methods.

In comparison, the cerebellar granule cell axon is characterized by a single T-shaped branch node from which parallel fibers extend.

The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, " to open ," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to " open ," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις ( anoixis ) ( opening ) for spring.

Hell in comparison is a place of eternal torment for the wicked.