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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.
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday March 22 2018, @05:34AM (1 child)
Hey you two might make a great pair. Kinda like Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by cocaine overdose on Thursday March 22 2018, @05:40AM