Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World

'Still care about your hair and the car you drive/ Doesn't matter if you're sixteen or thirty-five' Jason He If you found solace (and who didn't) in "High School Never Ends," you'll love this book, a primer on how popularity shapes the most important moments of our lives. Through rigorous science and riveting stories, Prinstein deconstructs popularity into two forms: one worth chasing, the other worth letting go. His writing is accessible, suspenseful, and thoroughly sourced by way of citations of peer-reviewed academic literature.. A thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening read, good for anyone interested in psychology and social dynamics Loose Moorings Great book. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I even wish it had been longer. Will read it again. I was attracted to it because one day I was thinking how social media is sometimes like being in high school again, with people concerned about status and popularity. I did a search on those ideas and found this book. It did not disappoint and helped me with my understanding of this phenomenon in social media and society.The author's discussion of status vs. likability added a fresh perspective and I think it has actually bene. Excellent! Enlightening and approachable Amazon Customer Excellent! Enlightening and approachable. Great insights to help understand social dynamics and prepare yourself and your children to navigate a social world.

Even as adults we all still remember exactly where we stood in the high school social hierarchy, and the powerful emotions associated with our status persist decades later. Realistically, we can’t ignore our natural human social impulses to be included and well-regarded by others, but we can learn how to manage those impulses in beneficial and gratifying ways. In many ways—some even beyond our conscious awareness—those old dynamics of our youth continue to play out in every business meeting, every social gathering, in our personal relationships, and even how we raise our children. In adolescence, though, a new form of popularity emerg

It wants us to question the power that popularity—status, in particular—exerts on our lives. Just how complicated is terrain tackled in a new book on the subject. Mitch Prinstein’s Popular is a perceptive and inspiring examination of how these aims pale in comparison to the power of genuine, lasting social relationships.”—Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor, University of California, Riverside and author of The How of Happiness“It is hard to imagine a more important book for the popularity-obsessed times in which we are living. A science-based Dale Carnegie.&rdquo

News & World Report, Time magazine, New York magazine, Newsweek, Reuters, Family Circle, Real Simple, and elsewhere. He and his research have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, U.S. . Mitch Prinstein is the John Van Seters Distinguishe