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I propose an extension to existing paradigms for studying social intelligence. This extension moves beyond the study of what cues, and with what accuracy, people use in social situations to the study of how and why the exact same cues can lead to radically different constructions of social reality. These differences are tearing the world apart. Social-intelligence researchers have a unique contribution to make in terms of helping us understand how the same cues can be interpreted so differently and lead to such different actions based on these interpretations.
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Sternberg, R.J. (2020). Postscript: Social Intelligence as the Social Construction of Reality—An Augmented Agenda for Social-Intelligence Research. In: Sternberg, R.J., Kostić, A. (eds) Social Intelligence and Nonverbal Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34964-6_15
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