Study: “Cool” Kids More Likely to Be Unhappy Adults

June 16, 2014

To conduct their study, Joseph P. Allen, a University of Virginia psychology professor, along with his team, looked at “cool” behaviors in 184 seventh and eighth graders, including “making out,” shoplifting, destroying property, and choosing the best-looking classmates as friends.

These behaviors paid off in middle school when the kids were perceived as more popular by their peers, but not in…

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