If you are that person who experiences a kind of personal “cringe” whenever the topic drifts to the personal matters of others, then you will discover yourself becoming an outsider in those particular social settings.
You are not judgmental but rather place importance on integrity more than getting a quick high through finding common ground to bond with others. Once you are no longer partaking in the currency of gossip, you have in effect withdrawn from most social situations.
3. High levels of “socioemotional selectivity”
The feeling that life gives us an increasingly acute sense of our own “limited time” – this is the essence of Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST), proposed by Laura Carstensen, a professor at Stanford University. The gist of the SST is that as individuals feel more acutely the finitude of their time, they prioritize building emotional connections over exploring their world.