Talk:Social skills

message: This page needs a complete rewrite and overhaul. It's simply a list of four bullet-pointed sentences that don't flow well together, and all the points could use much more coverage. Szyslak 22:47, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: As an engineer (heh heh heh...) who has actually worked on my social skills ...
The big red flag I saw with Sharing of Jokes and other sharing, is that they should be Appropriate Use of Jokes, Appropriate Topics of Discussion, or some better terminology.  (Trust me, humor tends to get mixed reviews in social contexts...)
I do not think this article is quite THAT useless, but it certainly needs better paragraphing and eloboration (and Wikification...)
Thank you for your time.  :-)  Bwefler 20:30, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Verbal communication" re Rewrite Rewrite...

message: Logged out to protect anonymity, what's the odds of getting any consensus on the stuttering reference being removed?  Many stutterers have excellent social skills.  I have a stutter myself, and am personally very offended by this.  82.152.193.74 22:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Close to none, I'm afraid. Maccore Henni Mii! Pictochat Mii! (Note: respond on minha (my) talk page in some manner) 20:32, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It was removed in 2008, twelve years ago.  Normal Op (talk) 20:48, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Stuttering]] 

message: "pretentious crap" template?Rich 16:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I apologize for my above rude question/remark. Someone has put thought and hard work into this article. The problem might be that one editor has an abstract animal behaviorist point of view, while a different editor is writing for us humans. Anyway, the article is depressing. It might make a Martian wonder why anyone should spend time learning social skills. I put a cleanup tag on it just now.Rich 23:30, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: is there a

message: I thought it was written in a very sensitive and mature manner.  In a, er, socially skillful manner.  What it does need though, are reliable sources.  Peer reviewd journals, books on social science, whatever.  It is a little unorganized but it can be easily fixed.  One topic it neglects though, is how "social skills" may be misused in a bullying context.
For instance; a person may be accused of "lacking social skills" right?  They may be perfectly polite, perfectly gentlemanly (or ladylike), etc, and the general excuse for mistreating them is "lack of social skills" when, the real reason is because, say, she is morbidly obese.  That is, there seems to be a lot of childish, immature people out there, who use the lack of "social skills" terminology in a derogatory manner, when the real reason a group of people mistreats or rejects another, may be malice paired with arrogance.
That is, its not so much a "lack of social skills" which isolates some individuals, so much as the prejudices, immaturity, and malicious arrogant behavior of some individuals.  Of course, that is only a phenomenon seen in western culture, or for that manner any culture where people take excessive, almost arrogant pride in their heritage.  To cut white people some slack, middle easterners often tend to be far more arrogant.  In those cultures, the arrogance can be intolerable in some people.
Still, the neutral, almost cold manner this article was written does deserve praise.  All it needs is some slight organizational editing, and the addition of sources.
206.63.78.76 22:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  this page does not need a rewrite! 

message: Poor little Nomophobia. It's an orphan, and it could use a link on this article. We've given Computer widow a link, and nomophobia seems just as relevant to the topic. Star Trek Enthusiast (talk) 19:40, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomophobia 

message: Can depression impair social skills? --91.157.12.243 (talk) 19:11, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. I don't have sources though. However, people who are depressed usually are more preoccupied and direct more attention to their own well-being (or lack thereof). This can make them less observant of others, and less interested in other people. They might also feel that it is too much of a burden to try to be sociable when they feel unhappy. Lova Falk talk 19:18, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm thinking the same. I found some research papers: http://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2004/04000/The_Impact_of_Depression_on_Social_Skills__A.2.aspx, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272735898001044 --91.157.12.243 (talk) 19:35, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

text: It was a bit depressing to read that there is an apparently unbreakable viscious circle though.  Gomez2002 (talk) 12:01, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Depression 

message: Both "social" and "people" skills are defined essentially the same: skills which facilitate interaction among people.  And "soft skills"/"hard skills" is nothing but an inept monkey-copy from technobabble (cf. software/hardware) and the article is essentially unreferenced. I smell neologism. The reading listed is about people/social skills. Staszek Lem (talk) 16:30, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not agree with merge. They may overlap but they are distinct concepts and more than neologisms.--Penbat (talk) 18:15, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, nothing in the articles suggest that "people skills" is something other than "social skills". Please prove your point. Staszek Lem (talk) 23:13, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I too do not agree with merge. But i would like to see difference between these similar concepts in the article, to avoid future misconceptions.59.89.237.40 (talk) 18:21, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[People skills]], [[Soft skills]] 

message: This is to avoid edit war and reverts, I skimmed through the book Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work and the article mentioned. Its only after that this edit was made, what the edit and sub-title says is about deficits, causes and outcomes. I believe this revision shows it clearly rather than simply mentioning social skills, the previous edit if read looks like something is missing. I would say the new edit is appropriate. Like to hear constructive feedback. Trimming is an option, if the content reflects informatively.117.215.192.74 (talk) 20:15, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Psychopathy in the workplace 

message: 👍 Heisjxnds (talk) 21:28, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Werewolf 

message: Girl 2001:D08:D8:B686:E9E0:517D:BB9A:B079 (talk) 15:03, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interpersonal skills 

message: Points 137.59.218.4 (talk) 18:50, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skills 

message: — Assignment last updated by Serenity D-B (talk) 20:03, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Human Cognition SP23

message: Depression is not a source of poor social skills, it might be actually something else that result in both. I.e. a complete poverty. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 08:24, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Depression