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Dr. Siegel discusses adolescent substance use, adolescents’ willingness to accept physical harm to achieve popularity, and the role of socio-personal sensitivity and expectations in decision-making and risky behavior. According to Dr. Siegel not all adolescents want popularity; nor will all adolescents endure physical harm to achieve it. But, for some, physical harm and a hospital stay is an acceptable cost if an increase in popularity status is the end result. These adolescents do not perceive themselves as invulnerable to harm; nor are these adolescents irrational. The adolescents who are most willing to endure physical harm to achieve popularity are the adolescents who have the greatest desire to be popular. Rather than approaching adolescence as a time of random and unbridled behavior, adolescents’ desire to achieve popularity is explained as a predictable response to the myriad of social changes, increased uncertainty, and identity demands experienced by some adolescents more than others. Dr. Siegel provides a theoretical explanation for the extremity of adolescent behavior and presents empirical support by assessing differences among adolescents willing to harm themselves to become popular and those who are disinclined to do so.
Original video: Digital video cassette; 60 minute DVM; Tape 9; recorded symposium presentation entitled, "Dying to be popular: Adolescents--why do they go to extremes?" from the symposium entitled, "Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty" April 06, 2008
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