Recently I read a wonderful topic in net,is "Emotional intelligence", simply EI. It is wonderful topic to read.
OK, what is Artificial Intelligence?
"Emotional intelligence is the innate potential to feel, use, communicate, recognize, remember, describe, identify, learn from, manage, understand and explain emotions."[1]This is a new definition as of December 17, 2007 by S.Hein.
John D.Mayer, he publish two popular articles, also explains the same concept in a different way.He and his colleagues salovey and David release a popular definition for EI,"the ability to process emotional information, particularly as it involves the perception, assimilation, understanding, and management of emotion."
HISTORY OF EI
In 1985 Wayne Leon Payne, then a graduate student at an alternative liberal arts college in the USA, wrote a doctoral dissertation which included the term "emotional intelligence" in the title. This seems to be the first academic use of the term "emotional intelligence." In next five years, no one else seems to have used the term "emotional intelligence" in any academic papers.
Then in 1990 the work of two American university professors, John Mayer and Peter Salovey, was published in two academic journal articles. Mayer, (U. of New Hampshire), and Salovey (Yale), were trying to develop a way of scientifically measuring the difference between people's ability in the area of emotions. They found that some people were better than others at things like identifying their own feelings, identifying the feelings of others, and solving problems involving emotional issues. The title of one of these papers was titled "Emotional Intelligence".
Since 1990 these professors have developed two tests to attempt to measure what they are calling our "emotional intelligence." Because nearly all of their writing has been done in the academic community, their names and their actual research findings are not widely known.
Instead, the person most commonly associated with the term emotional intelligence is actually a New York writer and consultant named Daniel Goleman. In the early 1990's Goleman had been writing articles for the magazine Popular Psychology and then later for the New York Times newspaper. In 1992 he was doing research for a book about emotions and emotional literacy when he discovered the 1990 article by Salovey and Mayer. According to the article by Annie Paul, Goleman asked them permission to use the term "emotional intelligence" in his book and that permission was granted providing he told people where he heard the term. Before then it seems his book was planning to focus on "emotional literacy". See this discussion for more about this.
In 1995 Goleman's book came out under the title "Emotional Intelligence." The book made it to the cover of Time Magazine in the USA and Goleman began appearing on American television shows such as Oprah Winfrey and Phil Donahue. He also began a speaking tour to promote the book and the book became an international best seller. It remained on the New York Times best-seller list for approximately one year.[2]
Goleman explains the EI in a simple manner as follows:
1.Self-awareness — the ability to read one's emotions and recognize their impact
while using gut feelings to guide decisions.
2.Self-management — involves controlling one's emotions and impulses and adapting to
changing circumstances.
3.Social awareness — the ability to sense, understand, and react to others' emotions
while comprehending social networks.
4.Relationship management — the ability to inspire, influence, and develop others
while managing conflict.
that is, understand yourself, your ability, talent, emotions etc and manage it properly. second point is understand others and respect their feelings and maintain a good relationship with others.
do u want to test ur emotional intelligence? go and visit the following link: http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl_eq_quiz.htm?. this link will help you to know about EI. when i was trying, they asked me so many questions. I answered all properly and my result is " you are an average man in EI. Better you improve yourself"
wanna try this go and answer the above link.
wanna read more about EI please read the following link:
http://www.unh.edu/emotional_intelligence/EIAssets/EmotionalIntelligenceProper/EI1990%20Emotional%20Intelligence.pdf
REFERENCES:
1.http://eqi.org/eidefs.htm
2.http://eqi.org/history.htm
