“…A common thread running through the research on social effectiveness is the attempt to distinguish this construct from cognitive ability. In line with this thread, social effectiveness constructs and cognitive ability often covary with each other (e.g., Jones & Day, 1997;Lee, Wong, Day, Maxwell, & Thorpe, 2000;Weis & Süß, 2007). Often, however, the correlations only reach a moderate level of about .20, and the empirical evidence shows that the two constructs can be distinguished from each other (Jones & Day, 1997;Lee et al, 2000;Weis & Süß, 2007).…”