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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @07:23AM
It actually takes effort, you know, like most things in life. I avoid large groups of people, because people act FAKE in large groups. They never display their real emotions. And then there are places like bars, with dimmed lights, loud music, so you can't even concentrate on another person properly. This inability to see another person for what they are is frankly terrifying. This is why I never go to such places. If there is a hell for me, it's probably a dimly lit bar with a lot of people.