Life Hacks/Mods Guide/Adjust Attributes/Social Attributes

Diplomacy

One's ability to negotiate with another person or a group of people.

Tact

One's ability to avoid upsetting the person they are talking to.

Note: Tact can be strategically ignored for the sake of diplomacy or just plain malice.

Engagement

One's ability to make the person they are communicating with feel like they are included in the conversation.

Empathy

One's ability to understand another person's situation and imagine yourself in their shoes.

Note: Having empathy does not necessarily mean you will be a nicer person. A strong sense of empathy can be used to positive effect by using it to figure out what can be done to make a person's life easier, neutral effect by using one's knowledge of the other person to more effectively negotiate a deal with them, or negative effect such as the "mean girl" style of bullying by using empathy to determine what a person's insecurities are and then attack them. A person with a strong sense of empathy also has the option to ignore what this sense is telling them.

It is also worth noting that Empathy draws from a whole series of other base skills and attributes in order to function. However, while empathy makes use of these other capacities, it is possible for one's empathy to be higher than the sources it draws from.

Facial reading

One's ability to pick up cues from a person's face, such as the stiffness in their jaw, the direction their eyes are facing, the direction their head is facing, and other aspects of their expression in order to determine what is going on in their mind.

Note: 80% of communication is non-verbal, and 80% of that 80% (so 64% of communication) is in the face, so having good facial reading greatly increases the amount of information you can read from a person.

Body-language recognition

One's ability to pick up cues from the way a person is standing, how animated or stiff their gestures are, the way they behave around certain objects (especially food, water, or small objects,) to determine what is going on in their minds.

Note: Body-language includes facial language, but does not read the face in the same level of detail as pure facial reading. Of the 80% of communication that is non-verbal, body language reading accounts for 40% of it.

Articulation

One's ability to express what is on their own mind in a way that the general person can understand it. This may use several tools from analogies to calling up past experiences of the person they are talking to, and can even include visual aids such as drawings or objects used to represent something.

Presentation

One's ability to make a person or group of people feel favorably about the way you interact with them by maintaining a mood and actions they determine to be appropriate to the situation.

Relation

One's ability to make the person they are interacting with feel that what is being said by the person with this attribute is important to them (the person being talked to,) personally.

Confidence

One's security in one's own abilities and convictions. A person with a high level of confidence can more effectively convince others that their position is the correct one, often even if their position is contrary to the opinions of their target. The difference in confidence between the subjects is the most important factor. Extremely disparate levels of confidence can even convince the less confident individual that things which they know are incorrect are, in fact, correct.