EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: DANIEL GOLEMAN

Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to recognize, understand, and appropriately use emotions to guide one’s thoughts and behaviors (Salovey & Mayer, 1990). Gardner was one of the pioneers of this concept. Two of his seven kinds of intelligence, inter- and intrapersonal, could be viewed as a single “personal” intelligence, containing the ability to understand one’s own and other people’s emotions, needs, and intentions. Interest in emotional and social intelligence as alternatives to traditional cognitive ability has exploded in recent years. Its popularity has been linked to psychological research and media coverage suggesting that a high degree of emotional intelligence can increase success in ...

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