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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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @07:28AM (1 child)
The Mighty Buzzard? Takes one to know one?? Maybe you are overestimating your sad abilities. Sociopaths are *TERRIBLE* job at picking up social signals. All they do is try to imitate and guess what is so plainly obvious to the ones that actually feel emotions of others. Remember the saying - eyes are a window into your soul? How you look with your eyes, your facial expression, are a key that will always be missed by sociopaths.
So yes, sociopaths are great at mingling with large group of people, chatting people up and the like. You know, like extroverts at parties. Fun to be around. But 1-1 interaction, terrible. Any empathetic person can pick up indifference of sociopaths that tries to imitate emotion in a few seconds. Their emotions look as real as anime characters compared real people on the street.
And you know what is simplest to pick up emotions? Animals, especially social animals. Even animals like chickens, tons of emotions. You know when they are happy or scared because they don't try to hide it like people. And if you ever see chickens in a commercial barn and not feel their terror, then you are shit at knowing what others think. Just some food for your sociopathic thought.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:27AM
Didn't we establish just last week that people with ADHD not only feel the full range of human emotions but feel the more strongly than those without the condition? In any case, you're dead wrong on the rest. Sociopaths may be incapable of feeling empathy but if they weren't capable of, and even very good at, at least dispassionately recognizing emotions they would be utterly unable to fake their way through life, which is obviously not the case.
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