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This is interesting because my initial response is to disagree, but I don't think I have good reasons or evidence.
To drastically oversimplify: You seem to be saying that intelligence is primary and social skills are learned. You're born smart or dumb, and if you're smart, you over-analyze social situations and become afraid.
My initial reaction is the opposite: Social skills are primary, intelligence is learned. You are born with or without good social skills, and if you don't have them, you read a lot (by yourself) and hack computers or whatever, so that you become smart.
I'm saying that sociability and intelligence are both present in some quantity at birth, but not necessarily the same quantity. I'm also saying that exceptionally powerful native intelligence combined with lower than average native sociability may result in a rider who who is much less likely to see the benefit of occasionally dropping the elephant's reins.