SUMMARY
In this article the author showed basic, fundamental features of social intellect: its continual nature; the usage of nonverbal representation of context; loss of accuracy for assessment of social conditions of verbalization of information being heard; acquiring implicit ability to subject-communication; updating personally meaningful experience.We described three basic structural components of social intellect: a cognitive component, the emotional one and a behavioral component. The cognitive component contains: social knowledge; social thinking; social anticipation; social intuition. The emotional component includes: empathy – the ability to enter the position of others, put yourself in the other conditions; recognition of emotions of others; emotional awareness – the ability to distinguish and interpret people’s moods, emotions, desires, and to adequately assess the features of their impact on others; the ability to self-regulation – the ability to regulate people’s emotions and mood. Behavioral component consists of the following structural elements: social interaction and social adaptation.