Scientific Definition
The capacity to recognize, understand, and manage emotions — your own and others'.
Plain-English Definition
The capacity to recognize, understand, and manage emotions — your own and others'.
Feynman Explanation
IQ gets you hired. EQ decides whether anyone wants to work with you twice.
Core Principle
The capacity to recognize, understand, and manage emotions — your own and others'.
Mechanisms
Pending editorial review.
The capacity to recognize, understand, and manage emotions — your own and others'.
Pending editorial review.
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Predicts leadership performance better than IQ above a baseline of cognitive competence.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
IQ gets you hired. EQ decides whether anyone wants to work with you twice.
Examples
- Goleman's 1995 synthesis of Salovey & Mayer's research with cognitive neuroscience and workplace data.
- Predicts leadership performance better than IQ above a baseline of cognitive competence.
Pending editorial review.
Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Train the four domains: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management.
Measurement Approaches
Pending editorial review.
Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Train the four domains: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
When the limbic system overrides higher cognition and behavior follows ancient circuits, not chosen values.
Emotional states distort cognition and decision-making.
Predicting how we will feel in the future, usually inaccurately.
Dacher Keltner's research: the emotion of encountering vastness reliably reduces self-focus and inflammation, and increases prosociality.
The drive to explore and understand for its own sake.
Negative emotions fade faster than positive ones.
A strategy to influence behavior by amplifying fear and uncertainty.
Effects of an intervention spread to other areas beyond the intended target.
Channeling disruptive emotions and impulses into productive action.
How will I feel about this in 10 minutes / 10 months / 10 years?
Basics first (health/finances), then depth (mastery/impact), then altruism (widening circle).
A group decides on a course of action that nobody actually wants, because everyone assumes others prefer it.