Popularity may actually be as important as we thought it was in high school.

That teenage quest for popularity appears to follow us long after our high school days and impacts the way we interpret the world as adults.

In this week’s episode, we talk about popularity, how people chase the wrong kind of popularity and how that follows us into adulthood with Mitch Prinstein, the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and author of the book “Popular.”