This paper explores the relationship between the creative process and social intelligence. Creativity has established value in modern, knowledge-based economies but is complex, multi-faceted and often group-led. Social intelligence is one method for navigating this complexity using intuition, communication, collaboration and empathy. A ‘creative vortex’ model (originally derived from PhD thesis...

This article discusses narrative intelligence in the context of the evolution of primate (social) intelligence, and with respect to the particular cognitive limits that constrain the development of human social networks and societies. The Narrative Intelligence Hypothesis suggests that the evolutionary origin of communicating in a narrative format co-evolved with increasingly complex social dyn...

Social power, regardless of its pervasiveness and acknowledged impact in a multitude of human social processes remains little explored in virtual agents. To address this gap in social intelligence and consequently virtual agent believability, we introduce the cognitive processes that underlie social power intelligence. In conceptualizing these we identify three core social power components requ...

Emotional intelligence helps us to understand and manage our own emotions as well as other people’s emotions towards us. Social intelligence, on the other hand, concentrates on social situations like how we interact with other people and how well we understand them. And then there is systems intelligence. Systems intelligence considers that human action always takes place in systemic settings c...

This paper presents the concepts of social and emotional intelligence as elements of human intelligence that are complementary to the intelligence assessed by the Turing Test. We argue that these elements are gaining importance as human users are increasingly conceptualising machines as social entities. We describe an implementation of Sensitive Artificial Listeners which provides a hands-on ex...

Many studies have found inverse correlations between intelligence and religiosity, intelligence and political conservatism, and intelligence and political extremism. Other studies have found that academics tend to be significantly less religious and more liberal than the general population. In this article, we argue that interdisciplinary differences in religiosity and political perspective amo...

‘The proponents of a genetic cause of the unequal distribution of intelligence in the social classes have long argued their case with the proponents of the environmental cause ... But whatever effects innate intelligence may have on the social mobility of individuals, current theories in genetics cannot by themselves account satisfactorily for the observed class distribution of low intelligence.’

The somatic marker hypothesis posits that deficits in emotional signalling (somatic states) lead to poor judgment in decision-making, especially in the personal and social realms. Similar to this hypothesis is the concept of emotional intelligence, which has been defined as an array of emotional and social abilities, competencies and skills that enable individuals to cope with daily demands and...