Thanks everybody, for taking your time to learn about the psychology of popularity.
It has been really fun to tell you about just a little bit of the research that
our lab has been doing, and so many people has been doing in this area.
Hopefully, you have taken away the sense that popularity
is something that is in our genes.
It's in our culture.
It's something inescapable.
Not only are we experiencing it in childhood and adolescence, but
it is having effects on us for the rest of our life.
But I hope that you've now learned that there are very different forms of
popularity, and some of those forms are worth paying attention to.
Being likable is important.
It's something that affects our health.
It's something that will make us happier within our work environments,
within our relationships.
But being cool and popular is not maybe as important.
And some of use might still be hanging on to those feelings that we had in high
school about being cool and popular or maybe not being cool and popular.
But that actually is something that ironically, caring too much about that and
feeling like that form of popularity is important,
actually might be the wrong thing to care about in adulthood.