Social disinhibition

What it means

A tendency to violate social norms because of a failure to resist temptations or urges in social settings.

A tendency to social disinhibition can be acquired after traumatic brain injury and may be described as insensitivity to others. Manifestions of social disinhibition may include (1) insertion of poorly considered utterances including insensitive remarks,overly intimate information, sexual references, and swear words, (2) failure to adhereto the rules of discourse leading to poor turn-taking, excessive side tracks, off topics,and talking too much, and (3) speaking from an egocentric perspective, that is,lacking concern, selfishness, childishness, arguing, not getting along with others.

Part of the broader category