Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence, the ability to perceive emotion, integrate emotion to ease thought, to understand and regulate emotions for personal growth.
An emotional quotient inventory, designed to not measure personality traits or cognitive capacity, but the ability to be successful with environmental demands and pressures.
Tests perceive emotions, detect and decipher emotions in faces, pictures, voices or from any vehicles of the age. Perceiving emotions critical to the process of all emotional information.
Tests measure for the ability to harness emotions, to ease thinking and problem solving. To capitalize on your own changing moods to get the job done.
Understanding emotions to be sensitive to slight variations in them, to know and recognize how emotion evolves over time.
Tests to harness and manage, even negative emotions to achieve intended goals.
Among other problems with testing, difficulty forming questions that a minority can solve, when, by definition, deemed emotionally intelligent only when a majority has endorsed them.
Daniel Goleman's model reads emotion and recognizes impact while using gut feeling to guide decision. Control of emotion and impulses, adapting to changing circumstances. To sense, understand and react while comprehending social networks. The ability to inspire, influence and develop others while managing conflict.
Goleman believes emotional skills are not innate talents, but learned capabilities developed for outstanding performance.
As with much testing, good faking can lead to excessive positive bias.
Locke narrows emotional intelligence to grasp abstractions, applied to the particular life domain of emotions.
Antonakis brings up the 'curse of emotion', a too strong sensitivity to emotions causing management problems.
Peter Sifneos coined Alexithymia, an isolation of those who appear to have deficiencies understanding, describing or processing their emotions.
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