Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions. Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others claim it's an inborn characteristic.

The ability to express and control emotions is essential, but so is the ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others. Imagine a world in which you could not understand when a friend was feeling sad or when a co-worker was angry. Psychologists refer to this ability as emotional intelligence, and some experts even suggest that it can be more important than IQ in your overall success in life.

Perceiving Emotions

The ability to identify emotions in oneself accurately.

How do you perceive yourself? Watch this video clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lkZmR1hDNU). Describe an instance when you perceived yourself in a way where it differed from others (Positive example and Negative example)

Journal – Daily, keep a mental memory of your feelings throughout the day. Take note of your happy, sad, angry and neutral feelings and explore what/who/how/why you felt a particular emotion. Journal daily for 7 straight days addressing your emotional states.

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Expand your emotional vocabulary – Discover the nuances in your feelings.
Gain insights about your inner life – Learn what’s causing your feelings over time.
Regulate your feelings – Use effective strategies to help you regulate your feelings: enhance the way you manage your life each day.
Remember to check in with yourself – Use reminders to check-in on your feelings throughout the day.

View your report – Learn how your feelings are affecting your decisions, relationships, and performance.

2. Recognizing emotions in others and objects.

The first involves judging what emotions are present in a photograph of a person’s face. There are a number emotion to choose from and the subject is given a range of choices from present to absence of the emotion.

Objects: https://www.colorpsychology.org/ https://www.thoughtco.com/geometric-shapes-4086370

3. The ability to express emotions effectively and appropriately.

Social Intelligence: Social intelligence (SI), on the other hand, is mostly learned. SI develops from experience with people and learning from success and failures in social settings. It is more commonly referred to as “tact,” “common sense,” or “street smarts.”
Verbal Fluency and Conversational Skills. expressiveness skills.”
Knowledge of Social Roles, Rules, and Scripts.
Effective Listening Skills.
Understanding What Makes Other People Tick.
Role Playing and Social Self-Efficacy.

To Do:

· Website: https://hbr.org/2008/09/social-intelligence-and-the-biology-of-leadership

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM2wIS8UejE

4. An ability to identify false or manipulative expressions of emotion.

https://psychcentral.com/lib/how-to-spot-manipulation/

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Using Emotions

by knowing how emotions affect our thinking and how to utilize our emotions we can become more effective at problem solving, reasoning, decision making and creativity.

Understand Emotions The ability to accurately label emotions and understand how one emotion can lead to another. For example understanding how irritation can escalate to anger.

Manage Emotions The ability to manage emotions in both yourself and others without resorting to unhealthy suppression of feelings. The MSCEIT (Mayer, Salovey & Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test) measures all four branches independently. As with the more familiar IQ test there are right and wrong answers. People taking the test can also score high on one branch and low on another.