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Knowledge of social rules helps people engage in socially intelligent behavior (Argyle & Kendon, 1967; Cantor & Kihlstrom, 1987; Lopes et al., 2004), but social knowledge alone is not enough. For example, even when they understand the social demands, people put their foot in their mouth if their dominant response to a situation is socially inappropriate and they have poor inhibitory control (von Hippel & Gonsalkorale, 2005). Consequently, research in social intelligence has also examined capacities that are thought to underlie socially intelligent responding. Some of these capacities are specifically social, such as the ability to read emotions in people’s eyes (Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Hill, Raste, & Plumb, 2001), whereas others are general capacities that facilitate social functioning, such as the ability to detect changing contingencies (Ronay & von Hippel, 2015) or inhibit dominant responses (von Hippel & …