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Yale Study: Sad, Lonely Introverts Are Natural Born Social Psychologists

posted by chromas on Tuesday March 20 2018, @11:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the sad-crying-clown-in-an-iron-lung dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Cognitive curiosity, cognitive ability, melancholy, and introversion predict social psychological skill, a new Yale study shows.

[...] The authors asked more than 1.000 subjects about how people think, act, and feel in social contexts. The two psychologists began the survey [...] by asking: “Can you accurately infer how most people feel, think, and behave in social context?” Gollwitzer and Bargh did a series of experiments to try and identify traits of those who accurately answered the questions.

[...] The key predictors of social psychological skill were the willingness to tackle a complex problem and cognitive ability, the authors claim.

Interestingly, the authors also found that lonely individuals, as well as individuals with lower self-esteem, tended to answer questions more accurately. Likewise, introverts answered more accurately than extroverts.

Source: https://www.inquisitr.com/4829590/yale-study-sad-lonely-introverts-are-natural-born-social-psychologists/

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by cocaine overdose on Tuesday March 20 2018, @11:59PM (9 children)

    by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Tuesday March 20 2018, @11:59PM (#655725) Homepage Journal
    This just in, life is just one big Dunning Kruger simulation. The dumbest are the loudest. The most unaware of a situation are the most likely to take control of it. Extroverts are big, loud-mouthed children and introverts are skinny, meek women! Moderation, fellows! Moderation! You can learn to not blurt out the first thing that pops into your mind and you can learn not to think everyone's staring at you, all the same!

    Crawling in my skin
    These pills that I will steal
    Withdrawal is how I fall
    Confusing what is real

    There's something in my head,
    Consuming, controlling
    This lack of drug supply I fear is never ending
    Confusing, I can't seem

    To find my dealer again
    My bills are closing in (without a hit of confidence
    I'm convinced that's just too much pressure ...)

    In my head, in my head
    Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie
    Who's in my head, in my head?
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:13AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:13AM (#655739)
    Hey Macarena

  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:43AM (3 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:43AM (#655872)

    Smoke more pot. relax...

    --
    Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:26AM (#656013)

    ! Moderation, fellows! Moderation!

    Yes. All things in moderation. Including moderation.

    Words to live by, friend.