Popular the power of likability in a status-obsessed world
"Popular examines why popularity plays such a key role in our development and, ultimately, how it still influences our happiness and success today. 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...
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New York :
Viking,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- The adult playground : where popularity still matters
- Boorish bully or likable leader : there's more than one type of popularity
- The problems with popularity : what's wrong with what we want?
- Herds and headaches : how our bodies are programmed to care about popularity
- The popularity boomerang : how we create the world we live in
- Our high school legacy : how we can conquer the prom queen today
- Clicks and cliques : what's not to "like"?
- Parenting for popularity : can Mom and Dad make a difference, and should they?
- Most likely to succeed : choosing the type of popularity we want.
