921: Mitch Prinstein | The Perks and Perils of Popularity
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Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Can we cultivate the likability that accompanies popularity without yielding to its status-seeking negatives? Popular author Mitch Prinstein weighs in!
What We Discuss with Mitch Prinstein:- How the role of popularity changes from childhood to adulthood.
- How much does physical attractiveness influence our popularity (and what can we do to overcome its effects if we're not particularly gifted in the looks department)?
- How popularity affects our hormonal and neural responses -- and even our DNA.
- The dangers of seeking status.
- How can we escape the popularity trap?
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Special thanks to Nissan and US Bank for sponsoring this episode of the Jordan Harbinger show. |
| 0:04.8 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger show. |
| 0:07.7 | The very things that give us more status, being aggressive, being focused on, |
| 0:12.1 | differentiating ourselves from others instead of connecting with others. |
| 0:15.8 | They tend to erode our likeability. |
| 0:18.4 | Don't get sucked into that aggressive behavior that so frequently comes along with status. |
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