Navigating the social maze of human interaction is an art form that even the most charming among us can occasionally fumble.

People with poor relationship skills often unknowingly push people away through their own unintentional behaviors.

Language and social cognition are fundamental to human communication. But how do these capacities interact? In a review paper published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers from the Max ...

Hearing aids dramatically improve a person's social engagement and reduce feelings of isolation or loneliness, based on ...

However, the social communication impairment portion of autism can remain crippling. For many autistic adults, this is described as difficulty understanding and being understood by other adults.

But it’s hard to conceptualize all this interaction. We coined the term social biome to help people understand how our lives are lived out in everyday communication. A social biome is our ...

Social communication disorder, also called pragmatic language disorder, is a new entry to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Before that, the ...

Outgoing people will be proactive and enthusiastic in social settings, often engaging more readily with others (consider the same networking session with the person standing in a circle of others ...

The more people understand how communication produces the social reality we live in, the more empowered people become in defining their own reality. Rather than blindly accepting that, “that’s the way ...

Autism is clinically defined by impairments in social communication, leading to assumptions that individuals with autism are less effective communicators. But a new study challenges this notion.

If someone does these things in conversation, they have amazing social skills: 1. Talk to strangers. I know this is not going to be popular advice, but you have to talk to people in real life to ...

As social scientists who study how people think about and interact with others, we’ve recently found some promising clues in our research on people with autism.