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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 Immerman on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:41PM (1 child)
Plenty of introverts are quite good at socializing - they would just rather not do so for prolonged periods.
Intro-/extro-version has nothing to do with social skills, but rather with the emotional response to spending time with other people. Extroverts find social interactions pleasant and energizing, while finding prolonged solitude unpleasant. Introverts respond in the reverse.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:08PM
^ This. I will never understand how people claim to be energized from socializing. It's draining as hell to me, though rewarding on its own. I think of it as something like interval training for the soul.
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