Emotional Intelligence What is E. Intelligence? . The ability to understand your own emotions . The emotions of those around you · And use that knowledge effectively Models of Emotional Intelligence: Salovey & Mayer 1990 . First clear theory regarding emotional intelligence · Posited 4 components - Accurately perceiving emotions - Using emotions to aid thinking - Understanding emotional thinking - Managing emotions Models of Emotional Inteligence: Goleman (1995) . Most well known model · 'Mixed Model' - emphasised ability and personality (Salovey focused more on ability model) · Derived emotional intelligence forms a hierarchy · Goleman (1995) Hierarchy Sustain good interpersonal relations K Assess and influence others emotions Emotion related to a drive for achievement Manage one's own emotional states Identify one's own emotional states · Goleman (2001) Hierarchy Social skills/management Social awareness Self-regulation/management Self-awareness · Emphasises physiology, noted that the Amygdala has strong links to emotional regulation - a core seat of EI; however, this claim is overly simplified and often ignored (Mathews 2004) · Measure through the emotional competence inventory Models of Emotional Intelligence: Bar-On (1997) . Emotional-social intelligence model · Evolutionary Framework - humans evolved to a specific social setting, have mental adaptation to deal with such events, emotional regulation is a result of evolution · Similar sort of constructs
- Intrapersonal - Adaptability - Stress management - General mood · Developed a measurement: Emotional Quotient Inventory - Overall score; five domains; fifteen facets - The overall score is used like IQ Importance of E. Intelligence · Educational achievement - Downey et al (2008) - Although somewhat mixed results in this domain · Work place achievement - Goleman (1998) · Life satisfaction/happiness - Chamorro-Premuzik et al (200tti) How does E. Intelligence relate to PID · Are we just reinventing the wheel? - Is social/emotion perception just general cognitive ability? - Is interpersonal success just neuroticism, extraversion, and agreeableness? · Important to know - Jingle-jangle fallacy - Jingle = two different things are the same because they bear the same name - Jangle = two identical or almost identical things are different because they are labelled differently - Implication = people may sell a product as new and sexy when it's actually old knowledge Sex Differences and EI · Robust evidence that females are higher at El than men · E. recognition through face and body expressions · No reliable sex differences in e. recognition in all face/body expression except in disgust recognition (even then it was very small) Lewis et al (2016) · Made actors make certain facial expressions · People displayed emotional expression through point light expression · Tested how well participants (390) could identify emotion through basic pictures . For each type of expression, they got a score of how well they were able to be identified . If your good at facial anger, it tends to be across the board · Identified a general ability which makes you good at all emotional recognition/ not so good . Face ability factor found no relation