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#623 - Dr Jean Twenge - Why Do Young People Seem So Fragile?

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The Importance of Popularity for Teen Girls

I've been doing a lot of learning over the last couple of months about introsexual competition, the way that female friendships work. We always think about men as being the hierarchical status-driven group. But it seems like both in terms of genetic predisposition and in terms of behavior, females are much more socially attuned. They understand body language, facial expressions, much more. And yeah, I can see how a quantified metric of popularity, essentially, which is what you could see social media as.

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