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- Vol 4 RE: Chapters 20, 21, App C
emotional awarenessemotion regulationempathyperspective takingsocial competenciesemotional vocabularyconstructive interactionmixed-model intelligenceBook Evidence summaryAt a glance
Goleman popularises emotional intelligence as a set of capacities involving awareness and regulation of one’s own emotions, motivation, empathy, and skilful relationships.
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Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, education, and illustrative cases, he argues that cognitive test scores alone cannot explain how people manage impulses, recover from setbacks, understand others, cooperate, or navigate consequential decisions. Emotional habits develop through experience and can be supported through family life, schooling, and deliberate practice, making social and emotional learning a legitimate educational concern. The book’s broad “mixed” model combines abilities, personality tendencies, motivation, and social competencies, however, and some claims about prediction and trainability extend beyond the evidence available in 1995. Later research distinguishes ability, trait, and mixed models and debates their measurement and incremental validity.
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Educational use should therefore teach specific, observable skills—emotion vocabulary, perspective taking, regulation strategies, and constructive interaction—while evaluating outcomes, respecting cultural variation, and avoiding the claim that a single emotional-intelligence score is more important than knowledge or general cognitive ability.
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