Social Intelligence Task

A Social Intelligence Task is an intelligence task that requires the application of social cognition and interpersonal understanding to perceive, interpret, and respond appropriately to social cues, social contexts, and social relationships.

• AKA: Social Cognition Challenge, Interpersonal Intelligence Problem.
• Context:
  • It can typically involve the Social Perception of facial expressions, body language, and vocal intonation.
  • It can typically require Theory of Mind abilities to infer mental states, intentions, and beliefs of social agents.
  • It can typically demand understanding of Social Norms within specific cultural contexts.
  • It can typically evaluate Emotional Intelligence through emotion recognition and emotional management.
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  • It can often assess the ability to adapt to changing social situations and group dynamics.
  • It can often measure Interpersonal Skills such as persuasion, cooperation, and conflict resolution.
  • It can often incorporate Empathic Understanding through perspective taking and emotional resonance.
  • It can often test Moral Reasoning in social dilemmas and ethical decision-making.
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  • It can range from being a Simple Social Intelligence Task to being a Complex Social Intelligence Task, depending on its social complexity level.
  • It can range from being a Controlled Social Intelligence Task to being a Naturalistic Social Intelligence Task, depending on its ecological validity.
  • It can range from being a Verbal Social Intelligence Task to being a Nonverbal Social Intelligence Task, depending on its communication modality.
  • It can range from being a Dyadic Social Intelligence Task to being a Group Social Intelligence Task, depending on its interaction scope.
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  • Performance: Social Intelligence Performance Measures, such as social prediction accuracy, social adaptation effectiveness, and social problem-solving efficiency.
  • It can be solved by a Social System that implements a social algorithm, such as a social agent.
  • It can be evaluated through Social Intelligence Tests such as Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test and Faux Pas Recognition Test.
  • It can be supported by Neural Networks in the social brain including the amygdala, superior temporal gyrus, and orbito-frontal cortex.
  • It can involve Social Information Processing through pattern recognition and contextual interpretation.
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• Examples:
  • Social Intelligence Task Types, such as:
    • Social Perception Tasks, such as:
      • Emotion Recognition Social Intelligence Task for emotional state identification.
      • Intention Detection Social Intelligence Task for goal inference.
    • Social Reasoning Tasks, such as:
      • Social Prediction Social Intelligence Task for behavior anticipation.
      • Social Attribution Social Intelligence Task for cause determination.
    • Social Decision-Making Tasks, such as:
      • Social Dilemma Social Intelligence Task for cooperation evaluation.
      • Resource Allocation Social Intelligence Task for fairness assessment.
  • Social Intelligence Task Contexts, such as:
    • Professional Social Intelligence Tasks, such as:
      • Leadership Social Intelligence Task for team motivation.
      • Negotiation Social Intelligence Task for conflict resolution.
    • Developmental Social Intelligence Tasks, such as:
      • Childhood Social Intelligence Task for friendship formation.
      • Adolescent Social Intelligence Task for peer group navigation.
  • Social Intelligence Task Measures, such as:
    • Experimental Social Intelligence Tasks, such as:
      • Reading the Mind in the Eyes Social Intelligence Task for mental state inference.
      • False Belief Social Intelligence Task for theory of mind assessment.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Logical-Mathematical Intelligence Task, which focuses on abstract reasoning rather than social understanding.
  • Visual-Spatial Intelligence Task, which involves spatial processing rather than interpersonal dynamics.
  • Creative Intelligence Task, which emphasizes innovative thinking rather than social cognition.
  • Physical Intelligence Task, which centers on bodily coordination rather than social interaction.
  • Individual Learning Task, which concerns personal knowledge acquisition rather than social relationship navigation.
• See: Social Consciousness, Sociality, Interpersonal Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Theory of Mind, Social Cognition, Social Brain.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_intelligence Retrieved:2014-8-17.
  • Social intelligence is the capacity to effectively negotiate complex social relationships and environments. Psychologist Nicholas Humphrey believes that it is social intelligence, rather than quantitative intelligence, that defines humans. Social scientist Ross Honeywill believes social intelligence is an aggregated measure of self- and social-awareness, evolved social beliefs and attitudes, and a capacity and appetite to manage complex social change. The original definition by Edward Thorndike in 1920 is "the ability to understand and manage men and women, boys and girls, to act wisely in human relations". It is equivalent to interpersonal intelligence, one of the types of intelligence identified in Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, and closely related to theory of mind. Some authors have restricted the definition to deal only with knowledge of social situations, perhaps more properly called social cognition or social marketing intelligence, as it pertains to trending socio-psychological advertising and marketing strategies and tactics. According to Sean Foleno, social intelligence is a person’s competence to understand his or her environment optimally and react appropriately for socially successful conduct.

1999

• (Baron‐Cohen et al., 1999) ⇒ Simon Baron‐Cohen, Howard A. Ring, Sally Wheelwright, Edward T. Bullmore, Mick J. Brammer, Andrew Simmons, and Steve CR Williams. (1999). “Social Intelligence in the normal and autistic brain: an fMRI study." European Journal of Neuroscience, 11(6).
  • ABSTRACT: here is increasing support for the existence of ‘social intelligence’[Humphrey (1984) Consciousness Regained], independent of general intelligence. Brothers et al. (1990 ) J. Cog. Neurosci., 4, 107–118] proposed a network of neural regions that comprise the ‘social brain’: the orbito-frontal cortex (OFC), superior temporal gyrus (STG) and amygdala. We tested Brothers’ theory by examining both normal subjects as well as patients with high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome (AS), who are well known to have deficits in social intelligence, and perhaps deficits in amygdala function [Bauman & Kemper (1988) J. Neuropath. Exp. Neurol., 47, 369]. We used a test of judging from the expressions of another person’s eyes what that other person might be thinking or feeling. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) we confirmed Brothers’ prediction that the STG and amygdala show increased activation when using social intelligence. Some areas of the prefrontal cortex also showed activation. In contrast, patients with autism or AS activated the fronto-temporal regions but not the amygdala when making mentalistic inferences from the eyes. These results provide support for the social brain theory of normal function, and the amygdala theory of autism.

1984

• (Humphrey, 1976) ⇒ Nicholas K. Humphrey. (1976). “The Social Function of Intellect.” In: Growing points in ethology.
  • ABSTRACT: Henry Ford, it is said, commissioned a survey of the car scrap yards of America to find out if there were parts of the Model T Ford which never failed. His inspectors came back with reports of almost every kind of breakdown: axles, brakes, pistons -- all were liable to go wrong. But they drew attention to one notable exception, the kingpins of the scrapped cars invariably had years of life left in them. With ruthless logic Ford concluded that the kingpins on the Model T were too good for their job and ordered that in future they should be made to an inferior specification ...

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