is noticing:
- whom gives attention to whom
, and how, and why
- the meanings behind various actions (carefully doled out flatteries, measures taken to exclude or show disdain, etc.)
- social hierarchies and where everyone stands within them
- the unfolding, the developments, and the general dynamics of people's relationships and interactions
- power plays
- double standards of people's behaviors and attitudes (ex. immediately ridiculing one person for something, yet playfully teasing another for the same thing)
- who trusts and respects whom
- where and to whom people's ultimate loyalties lie
- all this and discerning what it means on a broader scale for everybody else
type related?