Emotional Intelligence

Introduction Due to the wide array of confusion regarding Emotional Intelligence in Intelligence Scaling, this document is created in hopes of clearing misconceptions and explaining the current most modern explanations of “EQ” and “SQ” and what they entail. This isn’t meant to push any sort of argument for scaling, but rather abolish the usage of SQ and EQ and move into the more accurate form of EI which is a lot more defined and a lot less vague. This document doesn’t impose its scaling of EI as “superior” or “objective”, but rather explains the correct elements and usage of EI per its scientific definition and leaves it up to the reader to define how to integrate it into their scaling. Blue underlined text is links to sources/images ________________ Ability EI The Ability Model in Emotional Intelligence recognizes 4 distinct abilities: I. Perception: through facial expression, body language, pictures, voices, and so on, a person can recognize the emotions of others. This also includes the individual's ability to recognize and identify their own emotions as well. Emotion perception is generally thought to be a very basic aspect of Emotional Intelligence, because it is necessary to complete any of the other processes involved in the Ability Model. In fact, the difficulty that people on the autism spectrum have with learning social cues is related to their inability, or limited ability, to recognize the emotions of others through their expressions; they often lack the …