Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, use, understand and regulate emotions — in Salovey and Mayer’s 1990 framing — later popularised and broadened by Daniel Goleman (1995).
The ability model has tests (MSCEIT). Mixed and trait models (Bar-On; trait-EQ questionnaires) wander toward personality. Lisa Feldman Barrett’s constructed-emotion work and Damasio’s somatic markers complicate any simple “EQ organ”.
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Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, use, understand and regulate emotions — in Salovey and Mayer’s 1990 framing — later popularised and broadened by Daniel Goleman (1995).
The ability model has tests (MSCEIT). Mixed and trait models (Bar-On; trait-EQ questionnaires) wander toward personality. Lisa Feldman Barrett’s constructed-emotion work and Damasio’s somatic markers complicate any simple “EQ organ”.
This page treats EI as a useful, contested skill cluster with high trainability claims and mid evidence. It is not a ranking of warm peoples and not a diagnosis. Not in the ability model’s careful versions. Mixed models that predict “success” with everything from optimism to politics are the overclaim. g still organises cognitive batteries; EI is a different bet.
Emotion-labelling and regulation drills can move some behaviours. Branded EQ curricula vary. Size is usually modest — treat like growth-mindset humility, not a miracle. Bar-On’s EQ-i is a mixed/trait-leaning inventory. MSCEIT tries to be an ability test. They do not measure one thing.
This is about practice and individual craft. It is not a group IQ score. It does not replace the full topic page.
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