Social skill

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A social skill is any skill facilitating interaction and communication with others. Social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning such skills is called socialization.

Contents 1 In Behavior Therapy 2 See also 3 External links and references 4 References

[edit] In Behavior Therapy

To behaviourists, social skills are learned behavior that allow people to achieve social reinforcement and to avoid social punishment.^[1] According to Schneider & Bryne (1985), who conducted a meta-analysis of social skills training procedures (51 studies), operant conditioning procedures for training social skills had the largest effect size, followed by modeling, coaching, and social cognitive techniques. ^[2]

[edit] See also

• Aggression Replacement Training
• Anti-social
• Emotional Intelligence
• Social anxiety
• Social behavior
• Social cognition
• Social dynamics
• Social reality
• Social space
• Introversion and extroversion
• Systems intelligence
• Intercultural competence
• Metacommunicative competence
• Verbal abuse
• Computer widow

[edit] External links and references

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• Advice on Friendships and the Psychology of Friendships
• Some Facts Psychologists Know About… SOCIAL SKILLS
• Good System On Making Friends
• Teaching Social Skills
• Encouraging Social Skills in Young Children
• Information on Social Skills for Male College Students
• National Association of School Psychologists on Social Skills
• Strategies for teaching social skills to children

[edit] References