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2016-10-19T22:34:35-06:00

Defining Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is our ability to:

Accurately identify emotions in ourselves and others

Understand and manage emotions

Use and effectively communicate emotional feelings

To help us understand these concepts, let’s look at some thoughts from the experts.

Reuven Bar-On, Ph.D.

“Emotional intelligence is an array of personal, emotional, and social competencies and skills that influence one’s ability to succeed in coping with environmental demands and pressures.”

John Mayer, Ph.D. and Peter Salovey, Ph.D.

“[Emotional intelligence is] the ability to perceive, appraise, and express emotion accurately and adaptively; the ability to understand emotion and emotional knowledge; the ability to access and/or generate feelings when they facilitate thought (use); and the ability to regulate emotions in ways that assist thought (manage).”

Mayer and Salovey also developed the PUUM Model:

Perceive

Use

Understand

Manage

Daniel Goleman

“Emotional intelligence is the capacity not only to be aware of and able to express our emotions but to manage and moderate them effectively too. Emotional intelligence is what prevents anger from turning into rage and sadness into despair.”

Watch this video in which Daniel Goleman is speaking about Emotional Intelligence.

https://youtu.be/Y7m9eNoB3NU

I recommend watching this lecture on Emotional Intelligence by the Yale University's professor https://youtu.be/e8JMWtwdLQ4

There is one more way to understand Emotional Intelligence and that is through The Six Seconds Model