Abstract
Abstract Two studies considered the cognitive correlates of social insight and the practical implications of these cognitive patterns for effective social behavior. The first study was concerned with the absence of an overall relation between intraception and social insight and whether such a relation could be found if tolerance for ambiguity were introduced as a moderator variable. Two samples of college students of both sexes were studied. In the first sample (n = 95), a significant positive correlation between intraception and social insight was found for low-tolerant Ss, but there was no correlation for high-tolerant Ss. The same result was obtained in a replication sample (n = 134), again confirming the moderator role for ambiguity tolerance in the intraception-social insight relation. A second study (n = 551) substantiated the practical importance of the positive relation between intraception and social insight found for Ss having a low tolerance for ambiguity. Lower intraception and lower tolerance for ambiguity were found within a sample of less socially competent (and, presumably, less socially insightful) college students.
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