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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:30PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:30PM (#656108)

    People in general get extroversion and introversion wrong. It doesn't say anything about how people present themselves, it's about where people get their motivation and energy from.

    An introvert can be the life of the party, but in general, doing so will drain the batteries. Similarly, extroverts are capable of being alone in most cases, but doing so depletes their energy. Trying to motivate extroverts with external rewards or punishments rarely works as well as it does for extroverts. Whereas extroverts are rarely as motivated by internal rewards as introverts are.

    There's a neurological difference at work. It's no different from the typical differences between men and women. Most men are just not rewarded by prattling on for long periods of time when compared with women because testosterone depresses the oxytocin that women get as a reward for blabbing about.

  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:42PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:42PM (#656136) Homepage Journal

    People in general get extroversion and introversion wrong. It doesn't say anything about how people present themselves, it's about where people get their motivation and energy from.

    An introvert can be the life of the party, but in general, doing so will drain the batteries. Similarly, extroverts are capable of being alone in most cases, but doing so depletes their energy. Trying to motivate extroverts with external rewards or punishments rarely works as well as it does for extroverts. Whereas extroverts are rarely as motivated by internal rewards as introverts are.

    There's a neurological difference at work. It's no different from the typical differences between men and women. Most men are just not rewarded by prattling on for long periods of time when compared with women because testosterone depresses the oxytocin that women get as a reward for blabbing about.

    I have to disagree. You're also painting with too broad a brush.

    As to such "neurological differences," I'd like to see some data. Have you done any experiments to support your hypothesis? Are you aware of anyone else who has done so? It is an interesting hypothesis, but unless and until there's data to corroborate it, it's just rank speculation on your part.

    If not, you're just editorializing. There's nothing wrong with that, per se. However, I've had a much different experience myself.

    I take a great deal of satisfaction from internal "rewards," and while it's nice to be recognized by others, I take much more pride in doing the right things for the right reasons -- even if no one else knows about those things or those reasons.

    As an extrovert, I'm perfectly fine being alone. I also really enjoy the company of others and have, as I like to put it, an "anal expulsive" personality. As an extrovert, I do sometimes find it draining to "on" for extended periods, and I don't feel drained or unhappy when I'm not.

    It's been my experience that everyone is different in how they react to certain stimuli and situations. This is further complicated by the impact of other factors (mental or emotional states, levels of stress in various parts of one's life, good pizza, bad coffee and innumerable other things) on a person's reactions. Even to the point where they behave differently in identical situations.

    So until you provide me with some peer-reviewed studies with actual *data* (fMRI? cadaver brain comparisons with comprehensive psychological workups prior to death, and/or goodness know what else) with statistically significant sample sizes, I won't accept your hypothesis. There's just too much variability in behaviors, motivations and reactions, not just between individuals, but within a single individual.

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    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:10PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:10PM (#656345) Journal

    Okay, wise guy, now explain me, a woman and a hardcore introvert. I can't stand small talk, not even listening to other people go on about their stupid nails or their stupid hair or what their stupid kid did this week in first grade, etc etc.

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...