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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @11:01AM (1 child)
You judge too much. It affects your precision and prevents you from seeing the underlying internal structures and mechanisms. No doubt, there are many people who are liability as company, but if you see how their clockwork runs, you can manage to steer out of risks.
And just one word of warning: strong feelings and objections are sign of ongoing wrestling with own demons, or fears that they are still there, as they were back at the time others (parents, peers) filled in your today's morality.
If you despise others for something, it means you are afraid that you might be like them. Or, you were once like them, but then someone made you feel genuinely sorry for that. That's the source of the pain you feel when you observe bad conduct of others.
You must either forgive yourself for who you really are, or descend in your mind and find out if there is anything to be afraid of at all.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:00PM
No, I think Subsentient is just all too aware that humanity (in general) sucks. For every good person it seems like there are two shitbags.
Though I am not as far on the introvert scale that he(?) is, I can understand where he is coming from.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.