Mitch Prinstein: ...about popularity
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🗓️ 15 July 2022
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Popularity is the topic as we talk with Mitch Prinstein, author of "Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World". Mitch and his research have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Time magazine, New York magazine, Newsweek, and many others.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Jan Black. |
| 0:12.3 | And I'm Laura Owens. |
| 0:13.7 | Our guest on the line, University of North Carolina, clinical psychology professor |
| 0:17.8 | Mitch Princeton, has studied how popularity affects our success, our relationships, |
| 0:23.7 | and our happiness. He's written about it in the book, Popular, the power of likability in a |
| 0:29.5 | status-obsessed world. Professor, thank you so much for joining us on the line today. Sure, thanks for |
| 0:35.8 | having me. So how did you come up with the idea for popular? |
| 0:40.6 | Well, actually, researchers have been studying popularity for, I personally had been |
| 0:47.8 | personally and professionally interested in this topic for just about my whole life. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm interested in writing this book now because |
| 0:55.8 | everyone is starting to focus on one of two different kinds of popularity, and it's not the good |
| 1:02.5 | kind. Well, tell us about that. You say there are two different kinds of popularity. What are they? |
| 1:08.4 | Well, one type of popularity is the type that we can identify when we're as young |
| 1:13.1 | and it's simply how much we like one another. Likeability is a really important part of |
| 1:18.8 | popularity because those who are likable tend to do very well in life even 40 years later. They |
| 1:25.3 | have better jobs. They get paid more. They're happier and even physically |
| 1:28.8 | healthier. But the kind of popularity most of us think about when we hear about the topic is |
| 1:34.6 | the kind we experienced in high school. And that's not about likability at all, is it? It's really |
| 1:40.3 | who's most visible and influential and attractive and powerful. And that type of |
| 1:46.2 | popularity actually leads to long-term consequences. Such as? Well, the kids who are the coolest |
| 1:54.7 | when they grow up actually end up having problems with relationships, both romantic and friendships, as well as |
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