{"id":10718,"date":"2015-06-03T08:44:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T13:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=10718"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:44","slug":"popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=10718","title":{"rendered":"UNC-Chapel Hill launches new ‘Psychology of Popularity’ MOOC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mitch Prinstein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s Friday Center for Continuing Education will launch a new massive open online course (MOOC) on Cousera.org on June 22 called \u201cThe Psychology of Popularity.\u201d Taught by psychology professor Mitch Prinstein, the course presents research on the impact of early life experiences with popularity, how those experiences influence adult lives; and how an understanding of popularity can promote increased success at work, better parenting skills, and greater fulfillment in life.<\/p>\n

Advances in understanding of the human brain have only recently allowed researchers to unlock the effects of popularity and the ways that individuals\u2019 pasts affect them outside of conscious awareness. Prinstein\u2019s research explores the lasting influence of popularity from childhood through adulthood \u2014 its impact on office dynamics, interaction in social circles, and success in personal relationships. Popularity even has the power to change the expression of our DNA.<\/p>\n

Prinstein believes that the study of popularity can bring valuable lessons into our everyday life. \u201cI hope this course can help adults see their childhoods in a new light. I hope parents learn how to help their children grow up in a new world where popularity reigns more strongly than ever. And I hope that as adults, we can recognize patterns related to popularity dynamics at home, at work, and in our communities that can be changed so we don\u2019t keep reliving our adolescence all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prinstein is the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology in UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s\u00a0College of Arts and Sciences\u2019\u00a0Clinical Program. His research uses a developmental psychopathology framework to understand how adolescents\u2019 interpersonal experiences, particularly among peers, are associated with depression, self-injury, and health risk behaviors. He has received several awards recognizing his contributions to research including American Psychological Association Society of Clinical Psychology Theodore Blau Early Career Award, Columbia University\/Brickell Award for research on suicidality, and APA Fellow of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Dr. Prinstein\u2019s work has been featured in many popular media outlets such as The New York Times<\/em> and National Public Radio<\/em>, and he has appeared on over two dozen local and national television news programs to discuss his research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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