Emotional intelligence, also known as emotional quotient, is the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage and handle emotions. A person with high emotional intelligence can recognize emotions in themselves and others, use emotional information to guide their own thinking and behavior, discern and label different feelings, and adjust their emotions to adapt to different environments, a set of skills described together as emotional literacy.
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Core ClaimThe ability to perceive, use, understand, manage and handle emotions in oneself and others, including recognizing emotions, using emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, and adjusting emotions to adapt to the environment. 2 Classification
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is the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions
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The term first appeared in 1964 and gained popularity in the 1995 bestselling book Emotional Intelligence by psychologist and science journalist Daniel Goleman.
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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ is a 1995 book by Daniel Goleman.
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The term emotional literacy has often been used in parallel to, and sometimes interchangeably with, the term emotional intelligence. However, there are important differences between the two.
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