CONTEMPORARY INTEREST in EQ

sunandaC

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When Salovey and Mayer coined the term Emotional Intelligence in 1990, they were aware of the previous work on non-cognitive aspects of intelligence.

They described Emotional Intelligence as “a form of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and action”.

Salovey and Mayer also initiated a research program intending to develop valid measures of Emotional Intelligence inorder to explore its significance.

For instance, they found in one study that when a group of people saw an upsetting film, those who scored high on emotional clarity (which is the ability to identify and give a name to a mood that is being experienced) recovered more quickly. In another study, individuals who scored higher in the ability to perceive accurately, understand, and appraise others’ emotions were better able to respond flexibly to changes in their social environments and build supportive social networks.

In the early 1990’s Daniel Goleman became aware of Salovey and Mayer’s work, and this eventually led to his book, Emotional Intelligence.

Goleman was a science writer for the New York Times, whose beat was brain and behavior research. He had been trained as a psychologist at Harvard where he worked with David McClelland, among others.

McClelland was among a growing group of researchers who were becoming concerned with how little traditional tests of cognitive intelligence talks about what it takes to be successful in life.
 

bhautik.kawa

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When Salovey and Mayer coined the term Emotional Intelligence in 1990, they were aware of the previous work on non-cognitive aspects of intelligence.

They described Emotional Intelligence as “a form of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and action”.

Salovey and Mayer also initiated a research program intending to develop valid measures of Emotional Intelligence inorder to explore its significance.

For instance, they found in one study that when a group of people saw an upsetting film, those who scored high on emotional clarity (which is the ability to identify and give a name to a mood that is being experienced) recovered more quickly. In another study, individuals who scored higher in the ability to perceive accurately, understand, and appraise others’ emotions were better able to respond flexibly to changes in their social environments and build supportive social networks.

In the early 1990’s Daniel Goleman became aware of Salovey and Mayer’s work, and this eventually led to his book, Emotional Intelligence.

Goleman was a science writer for the New York Times, whose beat was brain and behavior research. He had been trained as a psychologist at Harvard where he worked with David McClelland, among others.

McClelland was among a growing group of researchers who were becoming concerned with how little traditional tests of cognitive intelligence talks about what it takes to be successful in life.

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