History on EQ
HISTORY ON EMOTIONAL INTELEGANCE
The ability to express and control our own emotions is important, but so is our ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others. Psychologists refer to this ability as emotional intelligence, and some experts even suggest that it can be more important than IQ
Emotional intelligence (EI/EQ) refers to the ability to perceive, control and evaluate emotions. Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others claim it is an inborn characteristic.
Since 1990, Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer have been the leading researchers on emotional intelligence. In their influential article "Emotional Intelligence," they defined emotional intelligence as, "the subset 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 actions" (1990).
Bar-On’s definition of Emotional Intelligence is “Emotional Intelligence is an array of non-cognitive capabilities, competencies, and skills that influence one’s ability to succeed in coping with environmental demands and pressures.”
Outlined below is a basic history of the study of emotional and social intelligence, as well as the major contributors.
2000 Years ago – Plato “All learning has an emotional base.” About 2,000 years ago Plato wrote, “All learning has an emotional base.” Since then, scientists, educators and philosophers have worked to prove or disprove the importance of feelings. Unfortunately, for a large part of those 2000 years, common thought was, “Emotions should be controlled and suppressed; they are in the way of us succeeding.” In the last three decades, a growing body of research is proving just the opposite.
1872 – Charles Darwin Charles Darwin is renowned for his work in the field of biology and more specifically evolution. He contended that it was not the strongest of the
The ability to express and control our own emotions is important, but so is our ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others. Psychologists refer to this ability as emotional intelligence, and some experts even suggest that it can be more important than IQ
Emotional intelligence (EI/EQ) refers to the ability to perceive, control and evaluate emotions. Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others claim it is an inborn characteristic.
Since 1990, Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer have been the leading researchers on emotional intelligence. In their influential article "Emotional Intelligence," they defined emotional intelligence as, "the subset 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 actions" (1990).
Bar-On’s definition of Emotional Intelligence is “Emotional Intelligence is an array of non-cognitive capabilities, competencies, and skills that influence one’s ability to succeed in coping with environmental demands and pressures.”
Outlined below is a basic history of the study of emotional and social intelligence, as well as the major contributors.
2000 Years ago – Plato “All learning has an emotional base.” About 2,000 years ago Plato wrote, “All learning has an emotional base.” Since then, scientists, educators and philosophers have worked to prove or disprove the importance of feelings. Unfortunately, for a large part of those 2000 years, common thought was, “Emotions should be controlled and suppressed; they are in the way of us succeeding.” In the last three decades, a growing body of research is proving just the opposite.
1872 – Charles Darwin Charles Darwin is renowned for his work in the field of biology and more specifically evolution. He contended that it was not the strongest of the
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