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Emotional Intelligence

Cary Cherniss

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Abstract Interest in emotional intelligence (EI) and related concepts has a long history in psychology. However, the earliest intelligence quotient (IQ) tests focused on cognitive abilities, and research on the social and emotional skills necessary for successful functioning continued to lag behind work on the purely cognitive ones. Then in the early 1980s psychologists like Gardner (1983) and Sternberg (1985) proposed that there are other kinds of intelligences, and in 1990 Salovey and Mayer began publishing on a new form of intelligence that they called emotional intelligence (Salovey & Mayer, 1990).

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Key concepts: Emotional intelligence, The Emotional Intelligence Appraisal, Psychology, Social intelligence, Theory of multiple intelligences, Cognition, Intelligence quotient, Human intelligence