COMM 115 Lecture 9: Chapter Seven EQ
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Psychologist daniel goleman and his colleagues recognized a kind of intelligence distinct from the type that standard iq tests measure. Eq is the ability to recognize feelings, to judge which feelings are appropriate in which situations, and to communicate those feelings effectively. Dealing with emotions without being overcome by them. Channeling your feelings to assist you in achieving goals. Having a strong yet realistic sense of optimism. Listening to your feelings and those of others so you can learn from them. Being able to understand how others feel without their spelling it out. Our experience and interpretation of internal sensations as they are shaped by physiology, perceptions, language, and social experiences. Researchers argue humans experience two kinds of emotions: biologically-rooted, universal, instinctual emotions and those learned through social interactions. Early theorists believed that we experience emotion when external stimuli physiological changes in us, organism view of emotions: we perceive a stimulus, we respond physiologically, we experience emotions.
