'Emotional Intelligence' by Daniel Goleman.

The basis of labeling intelligence has changed over the course of time. Intelligence tests (IQ tests) generalize the overall intelligence of the average person and categorize people into groupings of high, medium and low IQ. By having a high IQ, one is generalized as “intelligent,” and in contrast, one with a low IQ would be deemed “stupid.” In Isaac Asimov’s “Thinking about Thinking,” Asimov discusses how IQ test labels of “intelligent” or “stupid” become falsified through specific examples; in comparison, Russel Warne’s "A Welcomed Intrusion," discusses how IQ test scores can be used to determine which students should be placed into accelerated courses. IQ tests need to be changed because they cannot accurately measure overall intelligence due to society’s perceptions, gender differentials and the various types and strengths of intelligence levels.

Salovey and Mayer says the emotional intelligence is a label for skills that include awareness of self and others and the ability to handle emotions and relationships (Bolman and Deal, 2013 p. 171). Joe Smith the Director of Academic Advising at The University of Chicago has three Academic Advisors Tyrone, Erika and Mickey. Each advisor has levels of emotional intelligence and all three approach their students from different angles of advisement. Mr. Smith has concerns for two of his academic advisors,

“Emotional Intelligence refers to the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for

The researchers during the era of psychometrics and behaviorism believed that intelligence is single, inherit entity. In contrary to this notion an increasing number of researchers and psychologists now believed that individuals are born with and possess different levels of ability. The researcher can support their argument by the use of intelligence tests. Gardner (1993) expresses this view elegantly, stating that “there exist a multitude of intelligence, quite independent of each other, that each intelligence has its own strengths and constraints; that the mind is far from unencumbered at birth; and that it is unexpectedly difficult to teach things that go against naïve theories that challenge the natural lines of force within an intelligence and its matching domains.” Howard Gardner viewed intelligence as “the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural settings.”(Gardner and Hatch, 1989)

Emotional Intelligence and its Application to Nursing Practice Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships (Bradberry & Jean, 2009). Emotional intelligence was developed in 1990 and its popularity has grown in the 21st century (Marquis & Hutson, 2015). The book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 outlines four different skills that a person must improve on to increase their emotional intelligence and the book Working with Emotional Intelligence identifies five different components of emotional intelligence. Some of the skills from one book and the components of the other book overlap; however, both of the books bring

The theory of emotional intelligence was first introduced in 1990 by John Mayer and Peter Salovey. They developed various ways to measure emotional intelligence abilities, if it improved with age, and if emotional intelligence abilities formed a unified intelligence (Mayer, 2009). Mayer and Salovey found that if all criteria were met, than it was said to be a true intelligence. As described by Mayer (2009), emotional intelligence can be defined as one’s capability to reason about emotions and emotional information, and of emotions to enhance thought. Those with high emotional intelligence can accurately perceive emotions in other’s faces. They also know how to use specific emotional times within

Managing human emotions plays a critical role in everyday functioning. After years of lively debate on the significance and validity of its construct, emotional intelligence (EI) has generated a robust body of theories, research studies, and measures (Stough, Saklofske, & Parker). There has been work and many ideas by Jack Mayer, Peter Salovey, David Caruso, Daniel Goleman, and Steve Hein to name a few. All researchers have different interpretations of the term emotional intelligence and different visions of what emotional intelligence can mean for humanity (Hein, 2005). In 1985 Wayne Leon Payne, then a graduate student at an alternative liberal arts college in the USA, wrote a doctoral dissertation which included the term “emotional intelligence” in the title. This seems to be the first academic use of the term “emotional intelligence.” In the next five years no one else seems to have used the term “emotional intelligence” in any academic paper. Then in 1990 the work of two American university professors, John Mayer and Peter Salovey, was published in two academic journal articles. Mayer and Salovey were trying to develop a way of scientifically measuring the difference between people’s ability in the area of emotions. They found that some people were better than others at things like identifying their own feelings, identifying the feelings of others, and solving problems involving emotional issues. Since 1990 these professors

The book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, provides an alternative approach to how a person achieves success. This book does not focus on the conventional determinant of success, such as formal education and training, experience, and intelligence level (IQ). Although all these components contribute greatly to ones achievement of success, these factors are not the only factors to be considered in whether a person will be successful or not. This book focuses on the concept that it refers to as emotional intelligence (EQ), which is one’s ability to recognize and effectively understand his/her emotions in a productive and rational manner.

Daniel Goleman describes emotional intelligence as "the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves and for managing emotion well in ourselves and in our relationships (Goleman, 2000).” Goleman goes on to explain that emotional intelligence can be broken down into two core competencies. These competencies include personal competence and social competence. Personal

     In the book Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, the central thesis that he tries to point out is that emotional intelligence may be more important than I.Q. in determining a person’s well being and success in life. At first I didn’t know what Goleman was talking about when he said emotional intelligence, but after reading the book I have to say that I agree completely with Goleman. One reason for my acceptance of Goleman's theory is that academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. To me, emotions can be just as intelligent as your I.Q. In this essay I hope to provide sufficient evidence to show why I agree with Goleman’s thesis on emotional intelligence.

He describes self-awareness or self-observation. He says that you should know yourself and your strengths instead of your IQ test and its results. He suggested that some people are more attuned to the emotional mind’s symbols instead of traditional knowledge tested by IQ tests. However, Goleman

EQ proves that emotion influences a person's behavior though he is brilliant and high IQ.

Emotional intelligence was described formally by (Salovey & Mayer). They defined it as ‘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’. They also provided an initial empirical demonstration of how an aspect of emotional

In the year 1990’s, Daniel Goleman discovered the findings in neuroscience and psychology based on importance of Emotional Quotient (EQ) an ability to respond skillfully to pleasure and pain keeping in mind the feelings of others and himself. Daniel Goleman argued that EQ is the basic requirement for proper use of IQ and argued that if the areas of our brain that feel the emotions are damaged, the decisive thinking ability will be affected

To some persons, emotional intelligence is defined as study which looks for human cognitive abilities beyond traditional academic intelligence, (Zeidner et al., 2004). Researchers have categorized their definition based on the either an ability model or mixed model. Based on the Mandell and Phewanti (2003)’s ability model, “emotional intelligence is defined as a set of abilities that involves perceiving and reasoning abstractly with information that emerges from feelings” (p. 389). Studies of John D. Mayer and Peter Salovey (1997) have supported this model stating that emotional intelligence is defined as “the ability to perceive accurately, appraise, and express emotion; the ability to access and/or generate feelings when they facilitate thought; the ability to understand emotion and emotional knowledge; and the ability to regulate emotions to promote emotional and intellectual growth” (p. 35). In addition, Mayer, Salovey, and Caruso (2004) gave the definition of the emotional intelligence as “the capacity to