“Intelligence and Interpersonal Sensitivity: A Meta-Analysis”, 2011 ():
A meta-analytic review investigated the association between general intelligence and interpersonal sensitivity. The review involved k = 38 independent samples with 2,988 total participants. There was a highly statistically-significant small-to-medium effect for intelligence measures to be correlated with decoding accuracy (r = 0.19, p < 0.001).
Significant moderators included the type of decoding judgment (emotion vs. intended meaning judgments), decoding channel (audio-only vs. audio-plus-video channel), and target gender (both male-and-female targets vs. female-only targets).
Interpersonal decoding accuracy requires some level of social sophistication and results of this meta-analysis suggest that part of that social sophistication involves the cognitive abilities comprising general intelligence.
[Keywords: intelligence, interpersonal sensitivity, decoding, meta-analysis]
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