Science of Emotional Intelligence Knowns and Unknowns

by Matthews, Gerald; Zeidner, Moshe; Roberts, Richard D.

• ISBN13: 9780195181890
• ISBN10: 0195181891
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

During the past decade, emotional intelligence has been subjected to both scientific and public scrutiny. Numerous articles have been published on the topic in both academic journals and the popular press, testifying to the potential usefulness of emotional intelligence in psychology, business, education, the home, and the workplace. However, until now, there has been no systematic synthesis that grounds emotional intelligence in contemporary theory, while simultaneously sorting scientific approaches from popular fads and pseudoscience. Bringing together leading international experts from a variety of sub-disciplines, this volume aims to integrate recent research on emotional intelligence. The contributors address a set of focused questions concerning theory, measures, and applications: How does emotional intelligence relate to personality? What is the optimal approach to testing emotional intelligence? How can emotional intelligence be trained? In the final section of the book, the volume editors distill and synthesize the main points made by these experts and set forth an agenda for building a science of emotional intelligence in the future. Science of Emotional Intelligence will be an invaluable resource for researchers and professionals in psychology, education, the health sciences, and business.

Author Biography

Gerald Matthews, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. His research focuses on the use of cognitive science models to understand the interplay between personality, emotion, and information-processing. He is the coauthor or coeditor of seven books, and he has published over 200 articles and book chapters.
Moshe Zeidner, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Research on Emotion at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has conducted research in the area of personality and individual differences and is the author or co-editor of 10 books and author or co-author of about 200 scientific papers.
Richard D. Roberts, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist, in the Center for New Constructs at the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. His area of specialization is applied psychology, with a special emphasis on educational and psychological assessment. He has published over 100 scientific papers in areas as diverse as wind engineering, sensory processes, human cognitive abilities, emotions, personality, cognitive enhancement, and diurnal preference.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
List of Contributors	p. xvii
General Background
Emotional Intelligence: Consensus, Controversies, and Questions	p. 3
Emotional Intelligence: Conceptual Frameworks
Together Again: Emotion and Intelligence Reconciled	p. 49
A Neurobiological Approach to Emotional Intelligence	p. 72
Componential Emotion Theory Can Inform Models of Emotional Competence	p. 101
Emotions, Emotionality, and Intelligence in the Development of Adaptive Behavior	p. 127
Trait Emotional Intelligence: Moving Forward in the Field of EI	p. 151
Emotional Intelligence: More Than Personality and Cognitive Ability?	p. 167
Emotional Intelligence: Measurement Frameworks
Approaches to the Assessment of Emotional Intelligence	p. 199
Measuring Emotional Intelligence as a Set of Mental Abilities	p. 230
Trolling for Trout, Trawling for Tuna: The Methodological Morass in Measuring Emotional Intelligence	p. 258
Why Emotional Intelligence Needs a Fluid Component	p. 288
Face Memory: A Cognitive and Psychophysiological Approach to the Assessment of Antecedents of Emotional Intelligence	p. 305
Emotional Intelligence: Applications
The Clinical Utility of Emotional Intelligence: Association With Related Constructs, Treatment, and Psychopathology	p. 339
Emotional Intelligence in Organizational Behavior and Industrial-Organizational Psychology	p. 356
Social and Emotional Learning for Successful School Performance	p. 376
Toward Machines With Emotional Intelligence	p. 396
Conclusions
Emotional Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns	p. 419
Name Index	p. 475
Subject Index	p. 492
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