SCIENTISTS SHOCKED THAT MIDDLE SCHOOL IS HORRIBLE IF YOU’RE UGLY AND BAD AT SPORTS
This week in the department of “no duh”: we have a recent paper out of Florida Atlantic University that has determined — to the shock of no one who ever attended middle school — that adolescent life is much harder if you’re not attractive or good at sports.
Titled “The Perils of Not Being Attractive or Athletic: Pathways to Adolescent Adjustment Difficulties Through Escalating Unpopularity,” this new paper published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence looks at the way middle school students think about themselves and their peers. Spoiler alert: in spite of reports that kids these days are a little nicer, these tykes sound totally mean.
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