WHAT IS SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE ?
WHAT IS SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE ?

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a summary and aims to define social intelligence. The original definition of social intelligence concept belongs to Edward Thorndike, who defined it in terms of ability to understand people and to act wisely in human relations. Despite its usefulness and freshness, the term social intelligence was initially criticized by some researchers who rejected the concept considering it as a simple ability to manage social situations. Furthermore, the main argument the opponents of the theory of social intelligence had against it was related to the inability to measure social intelligence of a person. However, the psychology researchers have found a way to give social intelligence a quantitative note by using the hypothesis of effective behavior which can be measured by multiple ratings. Therefore, today we can say that social intelligence is defined as an individual's background knowledge about the social world.

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