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POPULAR
The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
POPULAR examines why popularity plays such a key role in our development and, ultimately, our happiness.
Surprisingly, the most conventionally popular people are often not among the happiest. There is more than one type of popularity, and many of us still wish for the wrong one. As children, we strive to be likable, which can offer real benefits throughout our lives. In adolescence, however, a new form of popularity suddenly emerges that reflects status, power, influence, and notoriety that can be quantified by Facebook likes or YouTube hits and is often addictive.
We cannot realistically ignore our natural human social impulses to be included and well regarded by others, but we can learn to manage them in beneficial and gratifying ways. POPULAR shows how to achieve the healthy type of popularity, not only for yourself but also for your children. More than childhood intellect, family background, or prior psychological symptoms, psychology has begun to discover that it’s our genuine popularity and likability in our early years that predict how happy we grow up to be.
Mitch Prinstein, Ph.D. is the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and the Director of Clinical Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mitch’s Peer Relations Lab, first at Yale University and then UNC, has conducted research on popularity and peer relations for almost 20 years, and his class on popularity has been among the most “popular” at both universities. He serves as the President for the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology, and is a former member of the Board of Directors for the American Psychological Association. Mitch and his research have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Los Angeles Times, CNN, US News and World Report, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Reuters, Family Circle, Real Simple, and elsewhere.
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Published 2017-06-06 by Viking |