Talk:Social intelligence

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Contents 1 Misleading 2 Low quality post 3 Different uses of "social intelligence" 4 not English 5 Social IQ tests

[edit] Misleading

I think this page is misleading.

Social Intelligence (or sometimes Machiavellian Intelligence) is commonly used as a term for the major evolutionary theory that explains why (for example) primates are intelligent in the way that they are. The explanation is that the social environment is a major source of selection pressure.

This concept is widely used by evolutionary psychologists, and is the basis of many thousands of publications.

The original reference is The Social Function of Intellect by Nicholas Humphrey from 1976 - it can be found at: www.humphrey.org.uk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.240.229.7 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Low quality post

Low quality post, not very clean information, and lacking in sited sources. I came to this wiki article to consider the book on the subject, this didn't help at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.63.178.138 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Different uses of "social intelligence"

I suggest the article should at least distinguish artificial social intelligence and other uses of social intelligence. A disambiguation page may be in order. --Fasten 11:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] not English

I know the native language of the original writer of the article is not English, but the caveman reference previously on this page was uncalled-for. Keeno 21:10, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Social IQ tests

Is there an article about social IQ tests? --Shultz IV 21:57, 3 May 2006 (UTC)