Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Put yourself, for a moment, with a bunch of kindergartners. Then try and predict which one of them might finish college and get a good job two decades down the road. Is it the kid who knows her ABCs or the kid who has a good memory? Well, new research has tracked children from kindergarten into young adulthood, and it's found that the most important predictors of long-term success are not intellectual skills but social and emotional ones. NPR's social science correspondent, Shankar Vedantam, joins us now to explain. Welcome back.SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Hi, Audie.CORNISH: So let's talk about social and emotional skills and frankly, how you figure out what those look like in a kindergartener.VEDANTAM: Yeah. You know, social and emotional skills are not the first thing that spring to mind when you're talking about kindergartners, but even at an early age, Audie, when you walk into a kindergarten classroom, you can pick up how
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