http://www.mayeuxresearch.com/2008/05/07/field-notes/ Research in peers, popularity and developmental psychology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:50:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.mayeuxresearch.com/2008/05/07/field-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Lara Tue, 13 May 2008 18:54:23 +0000 http://www.mayeuxresearch.com/?p=27#comment-87 Wow, so it wasn't just us! Thanks for posting this. And since we're telling stories, I can trace my debilitating sarcasm back to exactly 6th grade, which also corresponds to the beginning of middle school. And as my mom always told me, sarcasm is nothing but anger, but masked. So I guess I was surly in my own way, too. Wow, so it wasn’t just us! Thanks for posting this. And since we’re telling stories, I can trace my debilitating sarcasm back to exactly 6th grade, which also corresponds to the beginning of middle school. And as my mom always told me, sarcasm is nothing but anger, but masked. So I guess I was surly in my own way, too.

]]> http://www.mayeuxresearch.com/2008/05/07/field-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Sophie Wed, 07 May 2008 22:21:48 +0000 http://www.mayeuxresearch.com/?p=27#comment-74 Fascinating. I changed more between fifth and seventh grades than any time in my life. In fifth grade, I was chirrupy, well-groomed, class president, teacher's pet type. By seventh grade, I was a surly, depressed, pot-smoking hippie who cut school as much as I attended. (I went from public school to private school, where I was the poor kid, speaking of social comparisons.) I would have been so grateful if anyone had tried to understand me but adults were either scared of me or were angry about my self-protective surliness. Fascinating. I changed more between fifth and seventh grades than any time in my life. In fifth grade, I was chirrupy, well-groomed, class president, teacher’s pet type. By seventh grade, I was a surly, depressed, pot-smoking hippie who cut school as much as I attended. (I went from public school to private school, where I was the poor kid, speaking of social comparisons.) I would have been so grateful if anyone had tried to understand me but adults were either scared of me or were angry about my self-protective surliness.

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