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PSYCH 352SPositive Interpersonal Dynamics

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

Models of Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence: Points to note

• Emotional intelligence: “ability to monitor one’s own and other’s feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions” (Salovey & Mayer, 1990: 189)

• Emotions as information. Emotional intelligence is value-neutral. It is an ability that can be used for social good or harm.

• Be weary of “kitchen sink” treatments of emotional intelligence that include self and other awareness, social skills, values.

Developing emotion recognition

We present five experiments showing that reading literary

fiction led to better performance on tests of affective ToM

(experiments 1 to 5) and cognitive ToM (experiments 4

and 5) compared with reading nonfiction (experiments 1),

popular fiction (experiments 2 to 5), or nothing at all

(experiments 2 and 5).

Contrary to literary fiction, popular fiction, which is more readerly, tends to portray the world and charactersas internally consistent and predictable

Kidd, D. C., & Castano, E. (2013). Reading literary fiction improves theory of mind. Science, 342(6156), 377-380.

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Mid-course feedback

Stop

• Keep presentations to time limits*

• Games during presentations

• Randomizing groups in class

*mentioned more than once

Start

• More small group discussion*

• Longer group discussion*

• More lecture

• More personal stories

• Longer breaks (~10 mins)

*mentioned more than once

Continue

• Interesting and relevant articles*

• Music and relevant videos*

• Providing tools and exercises*

• Class involvement and feedback*

• Examples from students*

• Prof/TA dynamic

Emotional Intelligence & Emotion Regulation

Four Branch Model of EI

1. Perceiving Emotions

2. Facilitating Thought

3. Understanding Emotions

4. Managing Emotions

Today

1. Emotional Regulation: Key Perspectives

2. Emotional Regulation Assessment

3. Proposal and Blog Discussion

Today

Peña-Sarrionandia, A., Mikolajczak, M., & Gross, J. J. (2015). Integrating emotion regulation and emotional intelligence traditions: a meta-analysis. (Vivian)

Halperin, E., Porat, R., Tamir, M., & Gross, J. J. (2013). Can emotion regulation change political attitudes in intractable conflicts? From the laboratory to the field. (Greg)

Weytens, F., Luminet, O., Verhofstadt, L. L., & Mikolajczak, M. (2014). An integrative theory-driven positive emotion regulation intervention. PloS one, 9(4). (Shazi)

1. I control my emotions by changing the way I think about the situation I’m in.

2. I control my emotion by not expressing them.

3. When I want to feel less negative emotion, I change the way I’m thinking about the situation.

4. When I am feeling negative emotions, I make sure not to express them.

5. When I want to feel more positive emotion, I change what I’m thinking about.

6. I keep my emotions to myself.

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Emotion Regulation: A Self-Assessment

Gross, J.J., & John, O.P. (2003). Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for

affect, relationships, and well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 348-362.

Emotion regulation refers to “the processes by which individualsinfluence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express these emotions”(Gross, 1998: 275).

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Emotion Regulation

Up Regulate

Down Regulate

NegativeEmotions

Positive Emotions

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