The Science of Emotional Intelligence

By Peter Salovey, D. Grewal. 2005

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This article provides an overview of current research on emotional intelligence. Although it has been defined in many ways, we focus on the four-branch model by Mayer and Salovey (1997), which characterizes emotional intelligence as a set of four related abilities: perceiving, using, understanding, and managing emotions. The theory provides a useful framework for studying individual differences in abilities related to processing emotional information. Despite measurement obstacles, the evidence in favor of emotional intelligence is accumulating. Emotional intelligence predicts success in important domains, among them personal and work relationships.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/86f220e824c305dfea859318bd2c421520d46b0e

Citations in the corpus

• The Interpersonal Dynamics of Emotion: Toward an Integrative Theory of Emotions as Social Information (2018, unknown): “Perceiving emotions can be said to represent the most fundamental aspect of emotional intelligence, in the sense that it makes 58 Part I Emotions as Social Information Theory all subsequent processing of emotional information possible (Salovey & Grewal, 2005).”
• The science of emotional intelligence: Current consensus and controversies. (2008, unknown): “In the ability field, several studies (see Lopes et al,, 2004; Rivers, Brackett, Salovey, & Mayer, 2007) have shown that the Managing Emotions branch of the MSCEIT predicts social functioning with personality and ability controlled.”
• The reasoning skills and thinking dispositions of problem gamblers: a dual‐process taxonomy (2007, unknown): “Likewise, it is very much an open question whether ‘‘workarounds’’ can be found for the types of regulatory problems of the emotions exemplified in problems of missing TASS output (Matthews et al., 2002; Salovey & Grewal, 2005).”
• Improving Emotional Intelligence: A Systematic Review of Existing Work and Future Challenges (2018, unknown): “The question of whether EI is an ability (Salovey & Grewal, 2005) or rather an emotional personality trait (Petrides, Pita, & Kokkinaki, 2007) is an ongoing debate in the field of EI.”
• Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Responses to Hypothetical and Actual Frustrating Stressors (2009, unknown): “The MSCEIT is a 141-item measure that assesses the four branches of EI (perceiving, using, understanding, managing emotions) with ability-based items (for more information on the MSCEIT and examples of MSCEIT items, see Mayer, Salovey, Caruso, & Sitarenios, 2003, and Salovey & Grewal, 2005).”
• Relating emotional abilities to social functioning: a comparison of self-report and performance measures of emotional intelligence. (2006, unknown): “Below is a brief description of the four EI abilities; more detailed information is available elsewhere (Brackett & Salovey, 2004; Mayer & Salovey, 1997; Rivers, Brackett, Salovey, & Mayer, in press).”
• The Prosocial Classroom: Teacher Social and Emotional Competence in Relation to Student and Classroom Outcomes (2009, unknown): “…dimensions of teacher SEC might be studied including measures of teachers’ emotional awareness and emotional knowledge (J. D. Mayer & Salovey, 1997; Salovey & Grewal, 2005), emotion recognition, measurement of aspects of personality (sociability, social insight, empathy, prosocial responding), as…”
• Emotional Intelligence as an Ability: Theory, Challenges, and New Directions (2018, unknown): “…the last two abilities (understanding and management), which involve higher-order (strategic) cognitive processes, building on the first two abilities (perception and facilitation), which involve rapid (experiential) processing of emotion information (Mayer & Salovey, 1997; Salovey & Grewal, 2005).”
• EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND LEADERSHIP EMERGENCE IN SMALL GROUPS (2010, unknown): “Emotional intelligence Emotion Leadership Leadership emergence Emotional intelligence is a set of abilities concerned with processing emotions and emotional information (Mayer & Salovey, 1997; Salovey & Grewal, 2005; Salovey & Mayer, 1990).”
• Family incivility and counterproductive work behavior: A moderated mediation model of self-esteem and emotional regulation ☆ (2016, unknown): “Emotional regulation is a stable ability to regulate emotions, which helps individuals to rapidly recovery from distress (Harms & Credé, 2010; Salovey & Grewal, 2005; Salovey & Mayer, 1990; Wong & Law, 2002).”