Psychology of Popularity
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill via Coursera
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Syllabus
- How is Popularity Affecting Your Life as an Adult?
- We will review how popularity is changing your social information processing and DNA expression.
- How Do We Study Popularity Scientifically?
- We will discuss the ways that we have identified different subgroups of kids and adults who have
different popularity profiles. - Why are Some People More Popular Than Others? (Part 1)
- We will discuss what behaviors popular people engage in, and what types of specific behaviors make
people unpopular almost immediately. Implications for adult relationships will be discussed. - Why are Some People More Popular Than Others? (Part 2)
- We will review why facial and body attractiveness plays a role in popularity and how parents can make
their children more popular. - How Does Popularity Change Our Mood, Feelings, and Behaviors? (Part 1)
- We will discuss recent findings regarding the links between popularity and psychopathology.
- How Does Popularity Change Our Mood, Feelings, and Behaviors? (Part 2)
- We will review why popular people really do have better skills and life outcomes compared to others.
Taught by
Mitch Prinstein
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Reviews
4.2 rating, based on 10 reviews
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This offering opened my eyes to how impactful your peer/social standing was in childhood to your current disposition. Notably, there is a great room for research especially in non-Western or non-North American settings, and these findings should guide both policy and how we treat others on a daily basis.
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Brilliant! It changed the way I think about popularity and social behavior.It gives the causes and the solutions for various problems and helps all of us to make the improvements we need.
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Taich is taking this course right now and found the course difficulty to be easy.
I dropped this course. While there was some good information in the lessons I did listen to, it was pretty basic stuff. Well into the second week the term 'popularity' had yet to be defined for the purposes of the course. -
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