A critique of emotional intelligence : what are the problems and how can they be fixed?

By Kevin J. Murphy. 2006

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Contents: J.N. Cleveland, E.A. Fleishman, Series Foreword. Preface. Part I: The Definition and Measurement of EI. G. Matthews, A.K. Emo, R.D. Roberts, M. Zeidner, What Is This Thing Called Emotional Intelligence? K.R. Murphy, L. Sideman, The Two EIs. J.M. Conte, M.A. Dean, Can Emotional Intelligence Be Measured? Part II: The Relationships Between EI and Other Constructs. F.J. Landy, The Long, Frustrating, and Fruitless Search for Social Intelligence: A Cautionary Tale. J. Allen, J. Cohen, Emotional Intelligence in Classrooms and in Schools: What We See in the Educational Setting. A. Furnham, Explaining the Popularity of Emotional Intelligence. N. Brody, Beyond g. Part III: The Limits of EI. P.J. Jordan, C.E. Ashton-James, N.M. Ashkanasy, Evaluating the Claims: Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace. M.J. Schmit, EI in the Business World. D.L. Van Rooy, S. Dilchert, C. Viswesvaran, D.S. Ones, Multiplying Intelligences: Are General, Emotional, and Practical Intelligences Equal? R. Hogan, L.W. Stokes, Business Susceptibility to Consulting Fads: The Case of Emotional Intelligence. Part IV: Improving EI Research and Applications. K.R. Murphy, L. Sideman, The Fadification of Emotional Intelligence. C.S. Daus, The Case for An Ability-Based Model of Emotional Intelligence. P.E. Spector, H-A.M. Johnson, Improving the Definition, Measurement, and Application of Emotional Intelligence. K.R. Murphy, Four Conclusions About Emotional Intelligence.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Reflecting on Social Emotional Learning: A Critical Perspective on Trends in the United States (2009, background): “For some observers (notably Murphy & Sideman, 2006a, 2006b), Goleman’s work clearly departs from the “scientific” versions of EI and promotes a “practical” version reflected in various EI programs and interventions, especially in the business world and in education.”
Personnel selection. (2008, background): “See Murphy 2003, pp. 339–64 Caligiuri PM.”
Emotional intelligence can make a difference: The impact of principals’ emotional intelligence on teaching strategy mediated by instructional leadership (2018, background): “As Matthews et al. have pointed out, these two bifurcated models of EI ‘seem to be among those providing the most serious challenges to researchers interested in EI’ (Matthews et al., 2004: 85).”
From Eliza to XiaoIce: challenges and opportunities with social chatbots (2018, background): “To fulfill these needs, a social chatbot must demonstrate a sufficient EQ (Beldoch 1964; Gardner 1983; Goleman 1995; Goleman 1998; Murphy 2014).”
Stereotypes, Bias, and Personnel Decisions: Strange and Stranger (2008, background): “The litany of supporting research regarding the negative consequences of stereotypes often begins with the citation of work done by Rosen and Jerdee (1973). In fact, this one study has been cited in published research more than 153 times since its publication.”
Inadequate Evidence for Multiple Intelligences, Mozart Effect, and Emotional Intelligence Theories (2006, background): “Murphy (2006) reviewed the state of research on measures of EI and concluded that not only are existing measures of EI inconsistent with one another but current constructs of EI for which there are, as yet, no measures are so conceptually unclear that these constructs will not be able to be…”
Emotional intelligence: new ability or eclectic traits? (2008, background): “We agree with a number of observers of this area of study that the term emotional intelligence is used in too all-inclusive a fashion and in too many different ways (Landy, 2005; Locke, 2005; Matthews et al., 2004; Murphy, 2006).”
Emotional Intelligence: Toward Clarification of a Concept (2010, background): “Internal consistency reliability is high (r = .90), and 2-week test–retest reliability is adequate (r = .78) (Conte & Dean, 2006).”
Employability and Career Success: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Reality (2013, background): “O psychology’s emphasis on cognitive ability and education for career success, and may explain why Emotional Intelligence and other scientifically suspect measures of social skill are popular in business (Murphy, 2006).”
Emotional intelligence: an integrative meta-analysis and cascading model. (2010, background): “…intelligence concept—“emotional intelligence”—critics remain dubious on the definition and measurement of EI and whether EI has incremental validity in organizational contexts beyond personality traits and cognitive ability (Landy, 2005; Locke, 2005; Murphy, 2006; cf. Van Rooy & Viswesvaran, 2004).”