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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: 1) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:22AM (1 child)

    by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:22AM (#655779) Homepage Journal
    Nah mane, let me learn you well about what it's like having to communicate with normies: It's the same fucking thing 24/7. They're all the same. There's only slight variation between all of them. Such as their specific hobbies or tastes. Personality-wise, they're about as hard to figure out as Rubix cube, i.e once you know the algos, it's just improving your reflex time. Tone of voice is a huge giveaway. Most people know how to fake their body language (but not without it being exaggerated to shit!), many girls know how to fake the look in their eyes, few people know how to smile without looking like an American robot, absolutely no one but professional actors know how to modulate their voice to hide their intentions. It's just silly too. Once you've seen them in a handful of different situations, most importantly how they react to stress, you basically know what they're gonna do next. Their reactions are usually the same and few people improve their modus operandi over their lifetime. It's absolutely depressing to see how little people have control over their way of being. Like drug addicts. And unfortunately, that applies to all humans -- which blows ass knowing to succeede at anything is just throwing the right combinations of shit at the wall until your olfactory bulbs get that perfect stench, that triggers the perfect chemical reaction in your brain, and then "the stars align."

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:53AM

    by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:53AM (#655884)

    If that is true for you, you should take up poker. Being able to read people is not only big, it is the prime asset for success.

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