Does emotional intelligence qualify as a form of inelligence or it is just a tactics to deal with social situations ?
I think it can be both. We can look at emotional intelligence as type of intelligence. Empathy or one's abililty to identify another's internal states (i.e., the cognitive component of empathy) and share them (i.e., the affective component of empathy) is part and parcel of one's emotional intelligence (see, for this respect, D. Goldman's work on emotional intelligence). Thus, emotional intelligence allows us to share another's internal world, mainly his/her emotional world.
Of course, emotional intelligence can be also seen as a tactics to deal with social situations. It can be the be case that one's use of emotional intelligence intends, for example, to get favors of those with whom we are empathic, sympathetic and the like. I think that for we to know if emotional intelligence is either a form of intelligence different from intellectual intelligence or a tactics do deal with social situations, we need to know the underying reasons of one's apparently behaviors of emtotional intelligence.
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I think the word "intelligence" is not the right word when used with emotions. I mean, intelligence is a much more stable/constant construct and you can not develop one's intelligence in any form within a 10 session program. But there are plenty of works on the development of emotional intelligence within 5-10 weeks interventions. Thus, I think the better wording may be "emotional skills" rather than "emotional intelligence."
ES UN SUBTIPO DE INTELIGENCIA MÁS (EN EL MARCO DE LO CONOCIDO COMO "INTELIGENCIAS MÚLTIPLES". MAS AÚN, YA DESDE LOS INICIOS DE LOS ESTUDIOS SOBRE LA INTELIGENCIA SE HABLABA DE UN FACTOR GENERAL COMÚN A TODAS LAS PERSONAS INTELIGENTES -FACTOR "G"- Y DE FACTORES ESPECÍFICOS (FACTORES "S").
REDUCIRLA A UNA MERA "TÁCTICA" CONSTITUYE UN REDUCCIONISMO CIENTÍFICO...ADEMÁS DE QUE LA "INTELIGENCIA EMOCIONAL" -VER GOLEMAN ET AL.- ES MUCHO MÁS QUE LA "SIMPLE" INTELIGENCIA SOCIAL, YA DESCRITA HACE MUCHO POR THORNDIKE
I think it can be explaind by theory of multiple intelligence proposed by Howard Gardner. There are a few kind of intelligence and emotional intelligence it is a part of interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence. I Think it is a mistake that's we usually associate intelligence with logical thinking and mathematik thinking.
I think the basic few methods of thinking or problem solving are identical. No matter for what aim we want to use them. At least for me the most important issue about such expressions, like “emotional intelligence” is that they are combination. Then the question is that were they really necessary? Or there was not any other solution instead of mixing two separate cognitive abilities with each other? The point is that such new definitions will cause new problems at first for studying, and then for clinicians, like sth that has been noted by Dr. Erkan. Interestingly, it seems there is a reverse situation when we divide a special cognitive ability to new pieces, like sth that has happened recently for spatial ability.
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The word "intelligence" requires that a person have the innate ability to tune in to people in such a way that suggests the tactics required to address the needs of the other person or situation. Autistic persons, for example, can be taught the tactics to use in a social situation, but may not be in any way aware of the social cues that require adjustment of those tactics tot he situation or the person. Some people are astute in their personal-social assessments and interactions.
I agree with Nancy Terres's answer. However, I define intelligence as "the (innate) ability to solve problems for which the individual has no prior experience"...It is the ability to "figure out" things and situations. Therefore, "emotional intelligence" is a form of intelligence applied not only to social circumstances that allows the individual to make the best out (meaning: having the most adequate actions and reactions) any social situation but also to the way the individual views her/himself and how he/she handles intrapersonal communication: the way we talk to ourselves. Emotional Intelligence is intelligence working upon temperament. As in almost everything else in psychology, emotional intelligence is both a result of nature and nurture, being in some cases more natural and in other more a result of what I call "an educated soul". In other words, it is a form of intelligence that holds the reins on automatic emotional reactions, and therfore is able to make better choices in the realm of human interaction. This social ability can be reinforced, polished and increased through education, tactics, conditioned learning, continuous practice of social skills, and other means of socialization.
Emotional intelligence is an innate ability which can be nourished through learning some tactics.
Some consider EI a stable personality trait that can though through long and hard work be modified:
It is undoubtedly a type of intelligence; furthermore: it is a "specific" factor of Intelligence (within the model agreed upon today, to the point that it is already a paradigm: that of "multiple Intelligence") or "S Factor", before the General Factor - " S factor "- of the same
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