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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: 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.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.