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posted by chromas on Tuesday March 20 2018, @11:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the sad-crying-clown-in-an-iron-lung dept.

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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.

Source: https://www.inquisitr.com/4829590/yale-study-sad-lonely-introverts-are-natural-born-social-psychologists/


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:00PM

    by cmdrklarg (5048) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:00PM (#656102)

    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.

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