Assessing Emotional Intelligence In addition to publishing the SEI assessment, we use and recommend several valid and valuable measures of emotional intelligence. This overview will help you decide which EQ test to use, and how to get it. What is your primary purpose in using an assessment? Are you looking to a baseline for growth? [...]
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Here’s an article about contagious yawning, something many of us have heard about for years. Namely, you see someone yawn and you yawn yourself. Research into the ‘why’ of this has largely been speculative. Here the authors make a correlative connection to empathy and the relationship between ‘ingroup’ members and ‘outsiders.’ Kind of interesting. I [...]
Okay, so I’m hoping to convince you to read this quick little article about reading, education and complexity. I’m not going to give you all the references because, as you’ll see, it’s one person referencing another already and then throw me in the mix and well (no pun intended!) it get’s complicated! The first reference [...]
Turns out the size of your almonds might be important! If you’ve attended a level I certification, you probably remember creating your brain using food – a bagel, almonds, various candies and a paper napkin. All kidding aside, there’s new research out about social qualities and the relative size of a person’s amygdalae. Interesting article [...]
This is the title of an interesting and short article about emotion recognition through sound conducted by Disa Sauter of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Written by Andy Coghlan, the article describes how hearing emotional sounds (but not words!) made by others allows us to develop our own repertoire that [...]
Newly updated, the 2010 Business Case for Emotional Intelligence is an in-depth analysis of current research presented in a compelling, engaging eBook — available for free download (see below). The eBook covers…. Executive Summary: “The evidence is increasingly compelling. The measurable, learnable skills of emotional intelligence make a significant impact on organizational performance. EQ may [...]
The Creators of Sesame Street Were Right!! Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive Development at the Synapse Institute By Barbara Fatum, M.Ed., Ed.D. Sesame Street is the longest running Children’s Educational program on television. Its conception occurred in 1967 and its creators insisted that the show be designed “as an experimental research project that [...]
Okay, I confess that I just couldn’t leave this one alone. Here’s the link: http://tinyurl.com/y5pple4 Botox. Emotions. Do we stifle our ability not just to convey emotions to others, but also to feel it for ourselves, by paralyzing the physical mechanisms in our faces by which we demonstrate our feelings? I don’t think this would [...]