Social knowledge is knowledge about people, relationships and social conventions. It can inform a prediction about another person’s behavior without guaranteeing that the prediction is accurate in every setting. A test of an expected response can depend on cultural familiarity as well as the ability to infer a mental state. Separating knowledge of a convention from applying it helps interpret measures of social intelligence. [ref]
A search for social intelligence by Daniel P. Keating. 1978, measurement and interpretation of social-intelligence tasks
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