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n. the personal skills needed for successful social communication and interaction
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Social skill is any skill facilitating interaction and communication with others. Social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning these skills is called socialization.
Interpersonal skills are how people relate to one another. Interpersonal skills are the skills a person uses to communicate and interact with others. They include persuasion, active listening, delegation, and leadership. The term "interpersonal skills" is used often in business contexts to refer to the measure of a person's ability to operate within business organizations through social communication and interactions.
Social psychology is an academic discipline that does research related to social skills or interpersonal skills. The discipline studies how skills are learned by an individual through changes in attitude, thinking, and behavior.
Usage examples of "social skills".
Ambition escapism and scholarships propelled me to Cambridge, ready to learn the scientific and social skills I needed to understand and change the world.
They are bereft of social skills, and oblivious or indifferent to the lack.
Randy lies, now that his social skills, such as they are, have had a moment to get unlimbered.
No social skills, or lack of them, can change a Warlord Prince's nature.
Unsocial, lacking social skills, problems with attention control….
Mental (care and council), Home Skills, Parenting skills, Money Management, GED or 2 year College (or both), Social Skills, Family counsiling, Alonon, Family reunions, Buddy or Sisterhoods, Homecomings or reunions.
Shyness involves a social nervousness, a lack of social skills, a harsh internal critic, and acute self-consciousness.
An introvert may have social skills but simply prefers to be alone or with a few friends.
My arithmetic skills were subzero and my social skills were subpoor.
INTENDING NO OFFENSE to Romulus, Tarzan, and HAL 9000, Cass judged Earl Bockman's social skills to be worse than those of a child nursed in infancy by wolves, subsequently adopted by a tribe of apes, and later educated entirely by machines.