| About Emotional Intelligence | ||
| In the early 20th century, psychologists began to question the existence of a type of intelligence beyond intellect. David Wechsler (1940) was the first to refer to a non-cognitive aptitude that is essential to success by contending that "total intelligence [includes] some measures of non-intellective factors" (as cited in Cherniss, 2000, ¶ 5). However, until Howard Gardner defined his theory on multiple intelligences in his book titled Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983), psychologists overlooked Wechsler's philosophy. Using Wechsler's framework, Gardner theorized that, without productivity, intelligence (IQ) is inconsequential, so overall intellect must be more | than just IQ. This enigma was finally coined emotional intelligence by psychologists John D.Mayer and Peter Salovey (1990, 1993,1995) in a series of academic articles focused on social competence. They defined emotional intelligence (often dubbed EQ or EI) as "the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide our thinking and action" (1990, p. 185). This significant analysis served as the catapult for Harvard-trained psychologist and New York Times writer Daniel Goleman's first book, Emotional Intelligence (1995), which finally popularized the subject. |
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