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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:12PM (4 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:12PM (#656347) Journal

    Are you like the male version of me or what? Wow, that is spooky.

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  • (Score: 2) by ledow on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:05PM (3 children)

    by ledow (5567) on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:05PM (#656625) Homepage

    Judging by your sig, most likely.

    Fancy a date? :-)