Social intelligence is a specific function of the brain, not a general property of intellect

Rather interesting video about how knowledge of appropriate behaviour isn't enough to actually do it, and the neurological component of why this happens. Here the speaker looks at it in a context of behaving in a socially acceptable way and how damage to the frontal lobe (sometimes through ageing) restricts this. I bet this is also why old people often prattle on about irrelevant trivia as though it were fascinating.

I was particularly interested in the end of the talk which describes the correlation of reversal learning (where changing reactions to a situation can be identified) with intelligence and acceptable behaviour. People with low reversal learning abilities tend to be bad at getting along with others, such that if they have a high IQ they tend to be even more annoying rather than less. Interesting connections to the difference between knowledge and wisdom, though I suppose this might be limited only to social intelligence/behaviour rather than more generally applicable.

No transcript of this one as far as I could tel..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=125&v=CM2wIS8UejE