People who lack social skills are getting help from research lately. An interesting look at memories that involve people was just reported in Centre National de la Recherche.
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We remember those few bits of laughter… an invitation to the golf tournament … or a colleague who speaks kindly on one day, and on another day might pass on negative stories about your job performance. This research touches people who get demoted through poor social skills and those who look for promotions that take top social skills. How is this research relevant to your workplace?
Our memories of people or of how they treat us is a core part of social adaptation or brain based skills that draw from interpersonal intelligence. That’s why these memories, which form in several regions of the brain, such as the hippocampus, are directly involved in learning and memory.
Some of these regions are specialized in learning certain types of information, such as the amygdale and our memory for emotions, for instance. Check out the details in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, February 2007 to see how the research can help your firm.
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