Mitch Prinstein || Popularity and the Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World

The Psychology Podcast

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🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Mitch Prinstein, Ph.D. is board certified in clinical child and adolescent psychology, and serves as the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and the Director of Clinical Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He and his research have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, the LA Times, CNN, U.S. News & World Report, TIME magazine, New York magazine, Newsweek, and elsewhere. In his latest book Popular: The Power of Likeability in A Status-Obsessed World, Prinstein examines how our popularity affects our success, our relationships, and our happiness—and why we don’t always want to be the most popular. In our conversation we cover this and more, with key themes being: Why seeking popularity is actually a basic human need, Why it's not always the "conventionally popular" people who fare best, and how this relates to the (2) different strategies for achieving popularity: Likeability Status How studies can help explain both the basic human needs Facebook serves, and the more general status-seeking phenomenon on social media, What it means to induce a "Popularity Boomerang", and how becoming aware of it can fundamentally change the environment you exist in, How your early experiences of popularity (or lack thereof) are probably helping or hindering how you show up in the world today, and if hindering, how you can overcome its effects, Why it's more important the raise likeable kids than you might think, and the parenting implications of popularity research, The likeability advantage. We hope this conversation gives you some insights about popularity that will help you achieve your social, personal, and professional goals. Enjoy! Links: Popular: The Power of Likeability in A Status-Obsessed World is out now https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Power-Likability-Status-Obsessed-World/dp/0399563733/ Read an overview of the book and to take the Popularity Quiz http://www.mitchprinstein.com/books/popular-book/ Follow Mitch on Twitter @mitchprinstein https://twitter.com/mitchprinstein For more information on Mitch or his research visit http://www.mitchprinstein.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give
0:04.6	you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. Each episode will feature
0:09.3	a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.
0:14.8	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility. Thanks for listening and enjoy the
0:19.7	podcast. Today I'm really excited to have Mitch Princeton on the show.
0:42.8	Mitch is board certified in clinical child
0:45.6	and out of lesser psychology and serves
0:47.6	as the John Van Ceter's Distinguished Professor
0:50.0	of Psychology and Neuroscience
0:51.8	and the Director of Clinical at the University of
0:54.8	North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
0:56.5	Mitch's Peer Relations Lab has been conducting research on popularity and
1:00.2	peer relations for almost 20 years and he only looks 20 years old.
1:04.0	His latest book is popular, the power of likeability in a status obsessed world.
1:09.0	Thanks for Chad and Mitch.
1:10.0	Sure, thanks for having me.
1:11.0	You must have started very young when you're in high school.
1:14.0	I get that a lot, but I think I looked young growing up.
1:18.0	Yeah, fair enough. Well, tell me how these interests were formed as a child.
1:22.0	You know, it's a good question. I'm not. Well, tell me how these interests were formed as a child.
1:23.0	You know, it's a good question. I'm not sure what made me so interested in popularity through my whole life,
1:28.0	but I can remember being even, you know, five and six years old and just being so fascinated by why some people were so
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