Educational Policy on Emotional Intelligence: Does It Make Sense?

By J. Mayer, C. Cobb. 2000

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Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Emotional Intelligence and Trust in Formal Mentoring Programs (2010, background): “Interventions for character development in U.S. school systems that focus on social competence offer excellent models for the design of such training modules (J. D. Mayer & Cobb, 2000).”
The relationship of emotional intelligence with academic intelligence and the Big Five (2002, background): “Self-report assessment of emotional intelligence has been criticized (see e.g. Mayer and Cobb, 2000; Mayer et al., 2000; Petrides and Furnham, 2000).”
Emotional Intelligence: Review of Research and Educational Implications (2007, background): “These problems are also commented on by Mayer and Cobb (2000), who argue that trait EI seems to be a catchall phrase that includes anything involving motivation, emotion and good character.”
The Case for Emotional Literacy: The influence of emotional intelligence on problem behaviours in Malaysian secondary school students (2003, background): “While the notion of emotional intelligence has become fashionable in the popular press (Goleman, 1995), numerous researchers remain sceptical regarding the construct validity of such a concept (Mayer & Cobb, 2000).”
Convergent, Discriminant, and Incremental Validity of Competing Measures of Emotional Intelligence (2003, background): “Mayer and Cobb (2000, p. 177) also believe that mixed conceptions have “an all things bright and beautiful” quality to them, which makes them suspicious as descriptors of an emotionally intelligent person.”
Does emotional intelligence meet traditional standards for an intelligence? Some new data and conclusions. (2001, background): “…should vary with experience and age.7 Researchers have claimed that available evidence supports the notion that EI meets all three criteria and so is a legitimate form of intelligence (Mayer & Cobb, 2000; Mayer & Salovey, 1993, 1997; Mayer, Salovey, & Caruso, 2000a, 2000b; Salovey et al., 2000).”
Reflecting on Social Emotional Learning: A Critical Perspective on Trends in the United States (2009, background): “For some, the development of SEL reflects the popularization of neuroscience research on emotions in cognition and emotional competencies involved in social development (Mayer & Cobb, 2000).”
Job Competencies and the Curriculum: An Inquiry into Emotional Intelligence in Graduate Professional Education (2003, background): “They contend that emotions and intelligence should connect in some way if the two meanings are to be preserved and that “a low-to-moderate correlation is preferred to a nonexistent correlation; no correlation at all could suggest that the new ‘intelligence’ is so different that it is not an intellig”
TARGET ARTICLES: "Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Findings, and Implications" (2004, background): “This theory is deeply rooted in the psychological literature, and we argued against the popular claims publicly and repeatedly as soon as we assured ourselves that the claims were indeed unsupported (Mayer, 1999; Mayer & Cobb, 2000; Mayer et al., 2000b).”
An Assessment of Skills and Competencies Necessary for Entry-Level Student Affairs Work (2006, background): “Intelligence can be thought of as a hierarchy of mental abilities (Mayer & Cobb, 2000) with general intelligence at the top, verbal and spatial next, and then more specific intelligences thereafter.”
Emotional intelligence: new ability or eclectic traits? (2008, background): “Our own work never made such claims, and we actively critiqued them (Mayer, 1999; Mayer & Cobb, 2000; Mayer & Salovey, 1997; Mayer, Salovey, & Caruso, 2000).”
Assessing Emotional Intelligence (2009, background): “…the first year of university requires skills that go beyond the academic skills used to select for entrance to university (e.g., Gardner, 1983, 1999; Mayer & Cobb, 2000; Schutte et al., 1998; Schulze & Roberts, 2005; Brackett & Mayer, 2003; Petrides, Frederickson, & Furnham, 2004) and these…”
Emotional intelligence and mentoring in pre‐service teacher education: a literature review (2006, background): “Mayer and Cobb (2000) have argued that the rush by policy makers to embrace emotional intelligence is part of successive waves of interest aimed at educating different parts of the mind that have occurred since the 1950s.”
Academic achievement in high school: does emotional intelligence matter? (2004, background): “Although many educators were quick off the mark to develop or adapt intervention programs for EI (e.g., Elias et al., 1997), little was know about the efficacy of these types of interventions (Mayer & Cobb, 2000).”