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Popularity

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In sociology, the popularity of a person, idea, item or other concept can be defined in terms of liking, attraction, dominance and superiority. [1]

36 relations: American Sociological Association, Cooperation, Dominance (ethology), Emerging adulthood and early adulthood, Empathy, Facebook, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Group cohesiveness, Groupthink, Halo effect, Information cascade, Interpersonal attraction, Kent C. Berridge, Man, Mean Girls, Mere-exposure effect, Motivational salience, Odd Girl Out, Peer group, Physical attractiveness, Popular culture, Prosocial behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, Relational aggression, School bullying, Self-esteem, Social group, Social influence, Social networking service, Social status, Sociology, Sociometric status, Video game, Word-of-mouth marketing, Yahoo!, Zipf's law.

American Sociological Association

The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society, is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology.

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Cooperation

Cooperation (sometimes written as co-operation) is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for common, mutual, or some underlying benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit.

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Dominance (ethology)

Dominance in ethology is an "individual's preferential access to resources over another." Dominance in the context of biology and anthropology is the state of having high social status relative to one or more other individuals, who react submissively to dominant individuals.

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Emerging adulthood and early adulthood

Emerging adulthood is a phase of the life span between adolescence and full-fledged adulthood which encompasses late adolescence and early adulthood, proposed by Jeffrey Arnett in a 2000 article in the American Psychologist.

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Empathy

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American coming-of-age comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by John Hughes, and co-produced by Tom Jacobson.

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Group cohesiveness

Group cohesiveness (also called group cohesion and social cohesion) arises when bonds link members of a social group to one another and to the group as a whole.

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Groupthink

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

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Halo effect

The halo effect is a type of immediate judgement discrepancy, or cognitive bias, where a person making an initial assessment of another person, place, or thing will assume ambiguous information based upon concrete information.

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Information cascade

informational (or information) cascades happen when Internet users start passing on information they assume to be true, but cannot know to be true, based on information on what other users are doing.

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Interpersonal attraction

Interpersonal attraction is the attraction between people which leads to an relationships both platonic or romantic.

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Kent C. Berridge

Kent C. Berridge is a professor of psychology (biopsychology) and neuroscience at the University of Michigan in the United States.

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Man

A man is a male human.

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Mean Girls

Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey.

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Mere-exposure effect

The mere-exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them.

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Motivational salience

Motivational salience is a cognitive process and a form of attention that motivates, or propels, an individual's behavior towards or away from a particular object, perceived event, or outcome.

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Odd Girl Out

Odd Girl Out is a 2005 drama telefilm starring Alexa Vega, Lisa Vidal, Elizabeth Rice, Alicia Morton, Leah Pipes, Shari Dyon Perry, Joey Nappo, and Chad Biagini.

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Peer group

In sociology, a peer group is both a social group and a primary group of people who have similar interests (homophily), age, background, or social status.

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Physical attractiveness

Physical attractiveness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Prosocial behavior

Prosocial behavior, or "voluntary behavior intended to benefit another", is a social behavior that "benefit other people or society as a whole", "such as helping, sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering".

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Radboud University Nijmegen

Radboud University Nijmegen (abbreviated as RU, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, formerly Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) is a public university with a strong focus on research located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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Relational aggression

Relational aggression or alternative aggressionSimmons, Rachel (2002).

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School bullying

School bullying is a type of bullying that occurs in any educational setting.

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Self-esteem

Self-esteem reflects an individual's overall subjective emotional evaluation of his or her own worth.

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Social group

In the social sciences, a social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.

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Social influence

Social influence occurs when a person's emotions, opinions, or behaviors are affected by others.

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Social networking service

A social networking service (also social networking site, SNS or social media) is a web application that people use to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.

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Social status

Social status is the relative respect, competence, and deference accorded to people, groups, and organizations in a society.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Sociometric status

Sociometric status is a measurement that reflects the degree to which someone is liked or disliked by their peers as a group.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Word-of-mouth marketing

Word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM, WOM marketing), also called word of mouth advertising, differs from naturally occurring word of mouth, in that it is actively influenced or encouraged by organizations (e.g. 'seeding' a message in a networks rewarding regular consumers to engage in WOM, employing WOM 'agents').

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..

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Zipf's law

Zipf's law is an empirical law formulated using mathematical statistics that refers to the fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution, one of a family of related discrete power law probability distributions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popularity

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