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The interplay of these 3 factors are the basis of activating and determining each of
the three types or stages of social insight, which are the following:
o Core Social Insight
o Perceptive Social Insight
o Productive Social Insight
Core social insight is characterized when we are focused on ourselves and cannot
move beyond our own desires or motives. It means that we have absent understanding
about how other people affect our lives and so we only focus on our own world. Activation
of the core social insight might lead to the evaluation of our experience, and we act or
make judgments based on our existing knowledge about ourselves. Moreover, when core
social insight is the primary thing governing a persons life, it might be considered by
others as psychologically unhealthy, like some adults who have delusional beliefs and
are completely out of touch with reality. The main goal of this stage is to understand the
self and to start forming social awareness.
Perceptive social insight is a broader type of social insight wherein there is social
awareness and people employ observant or interactive behaviour but interprets it for
personal use. This stage is characterized by passive absorbing of social information, for
example when we meet other people for the first time or a few times, we may have little
insight about them, and this perceptive social insight might help us act and make
decisions by utilizing our self-knowledge and the knowledge we have about people. Like
how we feel when we are subjected to strong emotions of other people, or how we
perceive the activities of people around us. The main goal of this stage is to understand
how the human behavior works and why they behave a certain way.
Lastly, productive social insight is when we are able to use social information and
apply it to others by reacting or proactively interacting with them. It means having a
sophisticated model of the universe and carefully discerning how to improve things. At
this stage we should a deep understanding of human and our society. It means that we
intelligently apply everything that we have learned about humans to our daily lives, to our
relationships, and to other life aspects such as work and education. The main goal in this
stage is to move outside of ourselves towards inspiring and affecting others, and leaving
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