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Various workers from a number of different disciplinary shadings have been intrigued by the notion that social behavior is a skill demanding competent performance by the actor. There is nothing new about the idea, which probably goes back at least as far as the ancient Greeks, but the focus of attention and the elements of performance examined by each investigator show considerable variety. In most of its forms, however, the notion boils down to a kind of communication competence, although it is often treated in some other context, such as a psychological, developmental, or environmental one.
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Duck, S. (1989). Socially Competent Communication and Relationship Development. In: Schneider, B.H., Attili, G., Nadel, J., Weissberg, R.P. (eds) Social Competence in Developmental Perspective. NATO ASI Series, vol 51. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2442-0_6
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