Same Stories, Different Journeys: From Social Comparison to Sensemaking in AI-Mediated Peer Career Exploration
Young job seekers frequently turn to social media to compare themselves with peers and make sense of career possibilities. However, passive feed browsing creates a paradox: the authentic peer content that provides emotional grounding also triggers potentially detrimental upward social comparison and cognitive overload. Previous work has either structured online user-generated content to reduce noise without changing the passive browsing modality, or built AI-powered career exploration systems th
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Published: 13 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.HC
Category: Research
Topics: Jobs & economy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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