An April issue of Wired offers some bad news. When we make poor decisions, these behaviors can become part of the “blueprint” for future actions. Scientists are proving that our brains seek easy answers and may look only to a precedent of what we have done before and repeat that action—even if the decision was regrettable. [...]
Make Magazine has an interesting piece on emotionally interacting with a digitally created piece of art in their January 2010 issue. The two links below are the creator’s own website showing the ‘creature’ and then the link to the Make Magazine blurb titled ‘Emotional Aquatics’. The article goes into a little bit of depth about [...]
From Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang from USC. Literally, she means embodied – the two are not able to be separated. Here’s three more: “Emotions are not add ons that interfere with cognition.” “The message from social and affective neuroscience is clear: no longer can we think of learning as separate from or disrupted by emotion, [...]
At the conference yesterday, Dr. Josh Aronson from NYU gave a fantastic talk about what he and his colleagues call ‘stereotype threat.’ Essentially, stereotype threat is anxiety caused by any sort of stereotype or worry which in turn causes your ‘intelligence’ level to drop. His lab has studied many, many different versions of this and [...]
I had the privilege of spending almost four hours with Dr. Sam Goldstein yesterday afternoon. He’s an Assistant Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine and an Affiliate Research Professor of Psychology at George Mason University. He’s an incredible researcher and a wonderful speaker. Topics, if you’re not familiar [...]
Updated Nov 15, 2009 Definitions and History of Emotional Intelligence It all began about 2,000 years ago when Plato wrote, “All learning has an emotional base.” Since then, scientists, educators, and philosophers have worked to prove or disprove the importance of feelings. Unfortunately, for a large part of those two millenia, common thought was, “Emotions [...]
I was recently thinking about love and how I believe it’s one of the easiest emotions to share with others. And not just that but when you do share it, the benefits that come back to you (and hopefully others!) are significant. A few weeks ago the January 2010 edition of Scientific American Mind came [...]
I admit it’s a terrible habit – again sitting in a restaurant listening to the next table… but the guy was so loud I could hardly not! Three people, “Joe” and 2 friends, Joe says he’s so glad to see them again and launches into a story. Eventually says, “but I don’t want us to [...]
A Case for Emotional Intelligence in Our Schools Executive Summary Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to use emotions effectively and productively. Since the publication of the initial research in 1990, innovative schools and educational organizations have begun integrating emotional intelligence into their educational programs. It is becoming increasingly clear that these skills are one [...]
White Paper: Emotional Intelligence and Performance Joshua Freedman, Massimiliano Ghini and Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk Recent research by Six Seconds’ Institute for Organizational Performance finds that 54% of critical success factors are predicted by scores on the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Test (SEI). This white paper explains the power and importance of this claim. In his [...]