I agree that what I’m describing is a subset of social intelligence (I’m sure that’s what you meant). But I’d like to distinguish the ability to infer what other people mean from the sense to try to do so. The former is definitely a type of social intelligence, but I’m not sure if the latter is. My thesis really is that it’s beneficial to do the latter.
As for reaffirming the emotion, I think that that’s a good point—it’s probably a good and underutilized thing to do. I haven’t thought much about it though and don’t think I have any useful thoughts on it.
It’s almost what I meant… i actually meant that the sense of WHEN you should do it is a subset of social intelligence… on the extreme edge of this, people who are autistic are notoriously bad at understanding sarcastic humor—they have no ability to seperate content from subtext, so take everything literally.
I agree that what I’m describing is a subset of social intelligence (I’m sure that’s what you meant). But I’d like to distinguish the ability to infer what other people mean from the sense to try to do so. The former is definitely a type of social intelligence, but I’m not sure if the latter is. My thesis really is that it’s beneficial to do the latter.
As for reaffirming the emotion, I think that that’s a good point—it’s probably a good and underutilized thing to do. I haven’t thought much about it though and don’t think I have any useful thoughts on it.
It’s almost what I meant… i actually meant that the sense of WHEN you should do it is a subset of social intelligence… on the extreme edge of this, people who are autistic are notoriously bad at understanding sarcastic humor—they have no ability to seperate content from subtext, so take everything literally.
Ok, I agree with that.