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Review: In Mitch Prinstein's 'Popular,' Adolescence Never Ends - The Atlantic

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A new book explores the dynamics of popularity, and the ways our high-school selves stay with us far beyond the teenage years.

In August of 2001, Mitch Prinstein, a psychology professor who had just been hired at Yale University, offered his first class at the school: a course he had developed about popularity among children and adolescents. When Prinstein arrived at the small classroom the school had assigned him in the center of campus, he was greeted with a crowd outside the lecture hall—one so large that he figured there’d been a fire-drill-mandated building evacuation. It took him a moment to realize that there was no fire; the students were all there for his class. By the time the enrollment for the course was o

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