A social skill is any skill facilitating interaction and communication with others. Social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning such skills is called socialization.

Social skills are learned behavior that allow people to achieve social reinforcement and to avoid social punishment.According to Schneider & Bryne (1985), who conducted a meta-analysis of social skills training procedures, operant conditioning procedures for training social skills had the largest effect size, followed by modeling, coaching, and social cognitive techniques.

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