Images appear much lighter in program

I have Photoshop Elements 11 and my pictures are significantly lighter in the program compared to the original. After I made my edits and saved the jpeg when I look at the image in the folder it is much darker. The monitor is obviously not the problem so I am trying to figure out what is happening from inserting my sim card to importing the photos into Photoshop that is causing them to appear SO much lighter. Please help

I should add that I do see the noise that InD captures - something like it - at about 400% enlargement in PS. That's what makes me wonder about PS's previews. It seems like something like that noise is present, but not discernable at my usual 8x11.5 size. I should add that I come from years of analogue photography and have been using PS since version 2.5. Happily, until I bought InDesign.
Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on this. I wonder if anyone else has experienced it?

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