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ExcerptfromEmotionalIntelligencebyDanielGoleman,parttwo,3.

CanEmotionsbeIntelligent?

Togetafullerunderstandingofjustwhatsuchtrainingmightbelike,wemustturnto

othertheoristswhoarefollowingGardner’sintellectuallead-mostnotablyaYale

psychologist,PeterSalovey,whohasmappedingreatdetailthewaysinwhichwecan

bringintelligencetoouremotions.Thisendeavorisnotnew;overtheyearseventhe

mostardenttheoristsofIQhaveoccasionallytriedtobringemotionswithinthe

domainofintelligence,ratherthanseeing“emotion”and“intelligence”asaninherent

contradictioninterms.Thus,E.L.Thorndike,aneminentpsychologistwhowasalso

influentialinpopularizingthenotionofIQinthe1920sand1930s,proposedina

Harper’sMagazinearticlethatoneaspectofemotionalintelligence,“social”

intelligence-theabilitytounderstandothersand“actwiselyinhumanrelations”–was

itselfanaspectofa’sIQ.Otherpsychologistsofthetikamorecynical

viewofsocialintelligence,seeingitintermsofskillsformanipulatingother

people-gettingthemtodowhatyouwant,whethertheywanttoornot.Butneitherof

theseformulationsofsocialintelligenceheldmuchswaywiththeoristsofIQ,andby

1960,aninfluentialtextbookonintelligencetestspronouncedsocialintelligenceasa

“useless”concept.

Butalintelligencewouldnotbeignored,mainlybecauseitmakesboth

intuitiveandcommonsense.Forexample,whenRoberSternberg,anotherYale

psychologistaskedpeopletodescribean“intelligent,”practicalpeopleskills

wereamongthemaintraitslisted.MoresystematicresearchbySternbergledhim

backtoThorndike’sconclusion:thatsocialintelligenceisbothdi