Talk:Emotional intelligence

Criticism section
Shouldn't the topic on "Nancy Gibbs on emotional intelligence" be moved to the criticism section? Or, perhaps there should be a History section. here is a history with input from many of the leaders in the field. Or, here is a history from an interview with Daniel Goleman.

Article should be called Emotions and Intelligence
Emotional intelligence does not appear to be one thing, but rather it appears to be a combination of three things. Personality, General overall cognitive ability (IQ), specific socially oriented cognitive ability (Theory of mind). Coatchecker


 * Nope, the subject actually is "Emotional Intelligence" .. which in it's current form could almost be considered some type of holistic mental therapy that liberally incorporates random scientific facts to make it appear more authentic. Apparently a dynamic EQ was originally propose to be "the answer" to offset the fixed potentials of IQ to cash in on the stigmatic limelight surrounding 'The Bell Curve' (a hot topic at the time). I might go as far as to call EI a pseudoscience, but there is quite a few factual academic studies in the field. Although the peer reviewed journals in no way over glorify "emotional intelligence" in such an exaggerated manner as the New York Times bestseller that shares the same name. If anything the scholars have spent more time cleaning up the mess that Goleman made than making actual progress in this area. These views are my opinions. Anyways, the title is correct, the information does seem to be an odd amalgamation, but as one might say, "that is the nature of the beast."   74.97.109.162

Clean up
Hi, I'm trying to clean up this page.

It's the first time I've tried to clean up a wikipedia page, so have patience with me. It's just that there are a lot of areas that really need to be clarified, just on a grammatical / sentence-structure level. As someone familiar into EI, I'm also adding a bit of info here are there, although I'm trying to do this in separate entries. Chime in if there are any objections. -Kerrjac

--Ok, now I think that most of the article reads pretty well & objectively. I had edits for just about every section. Most of them were grammatical / styllistic bits (e.g., putting terms in italics rather than quotes), with a bunch of new internal links (among others, reliability, mediation, regression, confound, self-report, case study, social desirability). Most content changes were in the assessment / criticism section: For the former I rearranged the order, to take the emphasis off of the commercial scales, and also added info on the Schutte inventory; and for the latter, I further clarified the comparison to IQ, and I created a new section for criticism against Mayer. I also temporarly took out that section on neural circuits (see my note in text, I think the info doesn't below in the criticism section).

Perhaps we can take off the 'needs cleanup' tag in a few days. I think we just have to make sure that the reference section is updated with the content. We might also want to elaborate on some of the the information a bit, particularly the assessment area.

-Kerrjac

Merger proposal
Request received to merge articles: Emotional competence into Emotional intelligence; dated: September/2023. Proposer's Rationale: These articles have significant overlap. In fact, the Emotional competence article states that emotional competence is the same as emotional intelligence.. Discuss here. Sundayclose (talk) 16:52, 7 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Support as nominator. Sundayclose (talk) 16:28, 7 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Support These terms appear to be mostly or entirely interchangeable. ParticipantObserver (talk) 18:35, 7 September 2023 (UTC)


 * No. Emotional Intelligence is a specific academic term and is uses as such in academic research. Emotion Competence is not a term used in academic literature. Putting them in the same article will create confusion. Paulsheer (talk) 02:23, 19 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Consider: This 2014 journal article explains: "Although the majority of studies promote the advantages of emotional intelligence, something is missing from the puzzle, and that is the concept of emotional competence. The relation between these two concepts is a symbiotic one. Emotional intelligence is a prerequisite that forms the building bricks for developing emotional competence which, in turn, leads to performance." Also this book extract states "Emotional Intelligence is the ability to; - perceive emotion, - integrate emotion to facilitate thought, - understand emotions and to - regulate emotions to promote personal growth. Emotional competence refers to one's ability to express or release one's inner feelings (emotions)." — RCraig09 (talk) 03:12, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
 * That quote is an opinion. If it were truly the concensus view, then MANY articles would use "emotional competance". Emotional intelligence is NOT defined that way. Rather, it is defined by a battery of self-report tests, usually multiple choice. If it were not defined by a test, then it could not be measured. Enotional competance has no consensus in testing. 2600:1700:4030:5E40:CDAF:64A1:2111:72F9 (talk) 03:22, 19 September 2023 (UTC)


 * No. Emotional Intelligence is quite different from Emotional Competence and the article on Emotional Competence needs revision. For example Goleman consistently confuses anger (a normal emotion) with aggression, a behaviour, and similarly grief with depression. John Talbut (talk) 16:43, 7 October 2023 (UTC) I have now revised the article to restore it it its original and different meaning.John Talbut (talk) 06:51, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Copyediting?
This is on the list of articles needing copyediting, but there is no tag on the page. What needs doing with it? MrBauer24 (talk) 21:40, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * This page has a number of inline tags for cleanup (e.g., citation needed and ambiguous) —Ost (talk) 04:59, 6 April 2024 (UTC)