Many trauma survivors develop intrusive memories that can be highly debilitating. Although it is well established that the post-traumatic social environment plays a critical role, little is known about the role of social comparison with other trauma survivors. We investigated this using traumatic films and social comparison with a fictive fellow participant, predicting that perceived resilience and similarity of the fellow participant would shift comparison outcomes, negative affect, and the development of intrusive memories. In particular, healthy participants read ostensible testimonials from a fellow participant from a similar background, reporting high levels of PTSD symptoms (i.e. a similar-vulnerable social comparator; n=30), low distress (similar-resilient; n=30) or by a demographically dissimilar person reporting low distress (different-resilient; n=30). A separate no-comparison group (n = 30) served to gauge the presence of assimilative responding. Overall, only subtle effects of social comparison emerged across outcomes. Notably, relative to participants with a similar-vulnerable comparator, those with a the similar-reslient group had lower acute negative affect but not fewer intrusive memories. Relative to participants with a different-reslilient comparator, the similar-resilient group had comparable acute negative affect but tended to have fewer intrusive memories. This talk will discuss the idea that acute affect and intrusion development may be influenced differentially. More broadly, it addresses how a general comparative processing model may serve as a framework to explore social influence on adjustment to traumatic experiences.