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 wayssome even beyond our conscious awarenessthose old dynamics of our youth continue to play out in every business meeting, every social ga...
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New York, New York :
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC,
[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.