from Part VI - Kinds of Intelligence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2019
This chapter reviews the literature on social intelligence (SI) as it has evolved over the century since Thorndike (1920) popularized the concept. Most research on SI has been guided by an ability view, and an analogy to IQ, as exemplified by the George Washington University Social Intelligence Test, and the “behavioral” contents in Guilford’s Structure of Intellect. The assessment of SI is important for the assessment of intellectual disability (mental retardation) and the autistic spectrum, but raises the question of whether SI is a qualitatively different form of intelligence, or simply general intelligence applied in social situations. The chapter proposes an alternative knowledge view of SI as the fund of declarative and procedural knowledge which the individual brings to bear on social interactions, especially in the pursuit of important life tasks.
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