Study Paper: Cool People – https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-xge0001799.pd...
New study offers clues about what makes someone cool
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New study offers clues about what makes someone cool
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#3According to my own findings, there is minimal intersection between the group of cool people and the group of people who read coolness research.
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#4i used to think that being a kickass programmer was cool
now all i think about is money
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#5>Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous.
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#6>Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous.
Subtract hedonistic and powerful.
I would say that adventurous, open and autonomous are three qualities that make a person interesting, as opposed to boring. They likely have entertaining stories and an approach to life that repels dullness.
And extroversion, though it doesn't have much bearing on being interesting, makes it a little more likely that I'd encounter them and get to know the three other qualities.
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#7>Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous.
I noticed there's no word such as smart, bright, clever or wise mentioned in the sentence above.
Just an observation, nothing else.
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#8>Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous.
Guardian, fact-checking the paper with known cool people, suggests that they missed a key trait: "low-key"
(I disagree with their lists at the end of their article tho ;)
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#9According to my own findings, there is minimal intersection between the group of cool people and the group of people who read coolness research.
The first rule of cool is don't care about cool. The second (for experts) is that you can care if you don't show it. The third is that you can read research about cool and yet not care (God level cool)
That said, I think coolness research can help uncool people fight uncool shit like this
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#10I've found in my life cool people generally have something to offer, be it inspiration, insight, other otherwise, I feel like cool is often aspirational and differs depending on where someone is trying to go in life. It seems to me cool people have some unique degree of "Culturedness" - this lines up with the traits they found. If you are Extraverted, Hedonistic, Powerful, Adventurous, Open and Autonomous, you're likely ending up in situations and experiences that have a different venn from the other folks around you.
From the paper: "Our method does not let us test the extent to which coolness was valued or prevalent in a culture, but historical analysis suggests that cool people were first recognized and admired in countercultural niches, such as mid-20th century African American jazz clubs and beatnik coffee shops that valued improvisation and creative expression (Belk et al., 2010; Heath & Potter, 2004). The desire to be cool spread as societies shifted their focus from industry to information, and coolness continues to play a larger role in cities (San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, etc.) and industries (fashion, entertainment, technology) where economic success depends on creativity (Florida, 2012; C. Warren et al., 2019). Stronger evidence that coolness is a status hierar"