sociability
Sociology
(noun)
The skill, tendency or property of being sociable or social, and interacting well with others.
Psychology
(noun)
The skill, tendency, or property of being sociable or social, of interacting well with others.
Examples of sociability in the following topics:
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Intelligence and Inequality
- Students who do best in school are not always the most intelligent, but are usually culturally competent and sociable.
- Students who score high on measures of sociability earn more money and get more education than equally intellectually gifted students who achieve lower scores in social skills.
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The Big Five Personality Traits
- Extraversion - Extraversion describes energy, positive emotions, assertiveness, sociability, talkativeness, and the tendency to seek stimulation in the company of others.
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Other Important Trait Theories
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Allport's, Cattell's, and Eysenck's Trait Theories of Personality
- Do you tend to be sociable or shy?
- According to their theory, people high on the trait of extroversion are sociable and outgoing and readily connect with others, whereas people high on the trait of introversion have a higher need to be alone, engage in solitary behaviors, and limit their interactions with others.
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The Value of Social Support in Managing Stress
- The innate sociability of humans plays a role in every moment of a person's life.
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The Importance of Work-Life Balance
- Overworked employees are more likely to suffer health problems, more like to be absent and/or sick, less efficient, less sociable, and overall more difficult to work with.
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Emotional Leadership
- It is measured by looking at degrees of emotional well-being, self-control, emotionalism, and sociability.
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John Randolph and the Old Republicans
- Randolph appealed directly to yeomen farmers, using entertaining and enlightening oratory, sociability, and a community of interest—particularly in agriculture—that led to an enduring voter attachment to him, regardless of his personal deficiencies.
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Reactive Attachment Disorder
- Previously in the DSM-IV-TR, RAD was divided into two different types: inhibited type took the form of a persistent failure to initiate or respond to most social interactions in a developmentally appropriate way, while disinhibited type presented itself as indiscriminate sociability, such as excessive familiarity with relative strangers.
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Mischel's Cognitive-Affective Model of Personality and the Person-Situation Debate
- Prior to his research, trait theories argued that an individual's behavior is mostly dependent on traits like conscientiousness and sociability, and these traits are expected to be consistent across different situations.