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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 linkdude64 on Wednesday March 21 2018, @08:14PM
With the assumption that people are mostly alike, introvert, extrovert, whatever, and given that I am mostly a person, I feel like it's a quick inference, in many cases, to determine this or that about a person.
For example:
I have a coworker who is one of the most friendly, diligent, hard working, intelligent, and adeptly communicative people I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
Our boss (who is quite objectively ignorant, stupid, and useless when it comes to the things we work on) is constantly ignoring, contradicting, disrespecting, and even berating my coworker, in exchange for the high-level work that said worker does for him. This coworker never tires or lessens the load he takes on.
I simply cannot speak to that boss at nearly any length, and instead say that I will write him emails when things need to be communicated. What it would take for me to do what he does to my coworker could only be explained by a perception of the world that either devalues or ignores (whether due to stupidity or ignorance, both we are practicably responsible for) not only the work that my coworker does, but devalues or ignores all of the work that it took for my coworker to get to that point. It is so gross a slight against such an innocent party that I cannot suffer to even look at said boss without getting upset. This is why I do not talk to people.