Questions tagged [emotional-intelligence]
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Is a low Emotional Intelligence (EQ) pathological?
A sufficiently low cognitive intelligence is generally considered in society to be inherently pathological, or at least very nearly so. In fact, until recently, a diagnosis of Intellectual Disability (...
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Can you really have "excessive empathy"?
This question arose out of the question Excessive empathy, social cues and adaptive behavior evaluation whereby excessive empathy was considered to impair interpersonal relationships. My question is ...
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Number of core feelings?
In Emotional Intelligence 2.0 it is stated:
We have so many words to describe the feelings that surface in life,
yet all emotions are derivations of five core feelings: happiness,
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Does Emotional Intelligence (EQ) demonstrate the Flynn Effect?
The Flynn Effect is a well-known phenomenon whereby Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test scores among the general public seem to rise over time.
Does Emotional Intelligence (EQ) demonstrate the Flynn ...
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Is it scientifically backed that sensory signals always go through limbic/emotional brain system?
From the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves:
The daily challenge of dealing effectively with emotions
is critical to the human condition because our brains are
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What peer-reviewed evidence supports Procatalepsis?
I copy pasted the transcript of How to win a negotiation, with former FBI hostage chief Chris Voss, starting at 3:39.
So knowing that fear of loss is probably going
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Is a deeper capability of feeling emotions linked to a higher intellectual intelligence?
Kazimierz Dąbrowski, in his Positive disintegration theory talks about overexcitability as the most evident aspect of developmental potential. He distinguishes five types of overexcitabilties: ...
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Can frissons provide an accurate metric to gauge emotional intelligence?
This relates to my other post Frissons on demand. As is stated in the abstract of the cited source below (which discusses voluntarily controlled piloerection), the ability correlates with personality ...
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IQ-EQ oscillation
I know a guy who was very smart in school and university and had a high IQ. For example, in middle school he used to read high school science and math books like they're nothing but he had low EQ and ...
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How does logic affect emotions?
It is seen that logical reasoning of a human can be affected to a great extent by emotions. If you are feeling sad, you are more likely to reach a negative conclusion through logical reasoning than ...
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Leveraging emotional intelligence effectively in choice process
I am stuck between choosing between a few options. I have analyzed them rationally and yet I cannot decide what is the most suited for me.
I have read that a powerful tool here would be leveraging ...
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What Action Units (AU) from the FACS can be combined together independetly of each other?
There exist many "impossible" combinations of AUs, let's say 45+46 for example or 18+27 etc. i.e. combinations of AU that can not possibly be expressed because they "occupy" the ...
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Patterns in psychosomatic pains [closed]
In the case of somatoform disorders, when considering such a disorder where seeing the scenes of the surroundings and sensing a series of psychosomatic pains in a specific way, is there a name for ...
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Emotional Intelligence and perceiving emotions
One of the components of Emotional Intelligence is to be able perceive emotions in oneself:
"Salovey and Mayer's conception of EI strives to define EI within the confines of the standard criteria ...
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