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

The Psychology Podcast

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The Popularity Boomerang

The popularity boomerang is based on what developmental psychologists and developmental psycho mathology people call the transactiona model. Popular people have lifetime benefits, not just because of favoritism or some underlying quality that made them popular in the first place. By being likeable, it elicits new things from the environment that a person standing right next to them that's not likable would not get. That extra advantage gives you an opportunity to truly learn new skills,. which make you even more likeable. And it starts the cycle all over again.

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