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Below, you find the articles and books cited in our What is EC? section.

 

Multiple Intelligences

Dewey, J. (1909). Moral Principles in Education.

Thorndike, E. L. (1920). Intelligence and its use. Harper’s Magazine, 140, 227-235

Gardner, H. (1983). Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books.

 

Emotions with a purpose

Ekman, P. (1999). Basic emotions. In T. Dalgleish & M. J. Power, (Eds.), Handbook of Cognition and Emotion (pp. 45–60). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Ekman, P. & Friesen, W. V. (1978). The Facial Action Coding System. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.

Ekman, P. & Rosenberg, E. L. (1997). What the Face Reveals: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System. New York: Oxford University Press

 

The birth of Emotional Intelligence

Salovey, P. & Mayer, J. D. (1990). Emotional intelligence. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 9, 185–211.

Damasio, A. (1994). Descartes’ error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain. New York: Grosset/Putnam

Cherniss, C. (2010) Emotional Intelligence: Toward Clarification of Concept. Industrial and Organisational Psychology, 3, 110-126.

 

The rise of emotional intelligence

Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books.
Goleman, D. (1998). Working With Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books.

Gibbs, N. (1995, October 2). The EQ factor. Time, 146, 60–68.

Bar-On, R. (1997). The Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i): A Test of Emotional Intelligence. Toronto, ON: Multi-Health Systems.

Bar-On, R. (2000). Emotional and social intelligence: Insights from the emotional quotient inventory. In R. Bar- On & J. D. A. Parker (Eds.), Handbook of Emotional Intelligence (pp. 363–388). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Bar-On, R. (2004). The Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i): Rationale, description and summary of psychometric properties. In G. Geher (Ed.), Measuring emotional intelligence: Common ground and controversy (pp. 115–145). New York: Nova Science.

Petrides, K. V. & Furnham, A. (2000). On the dimensional structure of emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 313–320.

Petrides, K. V. & Furnham, A. (2001). Trait emotional intelligence: Psychometric investigation with reference to established trait taxonomies. European Journal of Personality, 15, 425–448.

Petrides, K. V. & Furnham, A. (2003). Trait emotional intelligence: Behavioural validation in two studies of emotion recognition and reactivity to mood induction. European Journal of Personality, 17, 39–57.

Goleman, D., Boyaztis, R. & McKee, A. (2002) Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence. Harvard: Harvard Business School Publishing.

Schutte, N. S., Malouff, J. M., & Thorsteinsson, E. B. (2013). Increasing emotional intelligence through training: Current status and future directions. International Journal of Emotional Education, 5, 56–72.

 

Controversy

Locke, E. A. (2005). Why emotional intelligence is an invalid concept. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26, 425–431.

 

Current Models

Bar-On, R. (1997). The Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i): A Test of Emotional Intelligence. Toronto, ON: Multi-Health Systems.

Mayer, J. D., & Salovey, P. (1997). What is emotional intelligence? In P.

Salovey & D. Sluyter (Eds.), Emotional development and emotional intelligence: Implications for educators (pp. 3–34). New York, NY: Basic Books.

Goleman, D. (1998). Working with emotional intelligence. New York, NY: Bantam Books.

Petrides, K. V. & Furnham, A. (2000). On the dimensional structure of emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 313–320.

Petrides, K. V. & Furnham, A. (2001). Trait emotional intelligence: Psychometric investigation with reference to established trait taxonomies. European Journal of Personality, 15, 425–448.

Petrides, K. V. & Furnham, A. (2003). Trait emotional intelligence: Behavioural validation in two studies of emotion recognition and reactivity to mood induction. European Journal of Personality, 17, 39–57.

Scherer, K. R. (2007). Component Models of Emotion Can Inform the Quest for Emotional Competence. In G. Matthews, M. Zeidner, and R. D. Roberts (Eds.), The Science of Emotional Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns. (pp. 101-126). New York: Oxford University Press.

Scherer, K. R. (2010). Emotion and emotional competence: conceptual and theoretical issues for modelling agents. In Scherer, K. R., Bänziger, T., & Roesch, E. B. (Eds.). Blueprint for affective computing: A sourcebook (pp. 3-20). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Application In the workplace

O’Boyle Jr, E. H., Humphrey, R. H., Pollack, J. M., Hawver, T. H., & Story, P. A. (2011). The relation between emotional intelligence and job performance: A meta-analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32(5), 788–818.

Côté, S. & Miners, C. T. H. (2006). Emotional intelligence, cognitive intelligence and job performance. Administrative Science Quarterly, 51, 1–28.

Rosete, D. & Ciarrochi, J. (2005). Emotional intelligence and its relationship to workplace performance of leadership effectiveness. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 26, 388–399.

Rosete, D. (2007). Does emotional intelligence play an important role in leadership effectiveness? Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

Petrides, K. V. & Furnham, A. (2006). The role of trait emotional intelligence in a gender- specific model of organizational variables. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 552–569.

Platsidou, M. (2010). Trait emotional intelligence of Greek special education teachers in relation to burnout and job satisfaction. School Psychology International, 31, 60–76.

Singh, M. & Woods, S. A. (2008). Predicting general well being from emotional intelligence and three broad personality traits. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38, 635–646.

Zampetakis, L. A., Beldekos, P., & Moustakis, V. S. (2009). “Day-to-day” entrepreneurship within organisations: The rote of trait emotional intelligence and perceived organisational support. European Management Journal, 27, 165–175.

Van Rooy, D. L. & Viswesvaran, C. (2004). Emotional intelligence: A meta-analytic investigation of predictive validity and nomological net. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65, 71–95.

 

Application in Clinical Settings

Dunn, E. W., Brackett, M. A., Ashton-James, C., Schneiderman, E., & Salovey, P. (2007). On emotionally intelligent time travel: Individual differences in affective forecasting ability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 85–93.

David, S. A. (2005). Emotional intelligence: Conceptual and methodological issues, and its role in coping and well-being. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Melbourne, Victoria.

Petrides, K. V. & Furnham, A. (2006). The role of trait emotional intelligence in a gender-specific model of organizational variables. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 552–569.

Hall, J.A. (2011). Clinicians’ accuracy in perceiving patients: Its relevance for clinical practice and a narrative review of methods and correlates. Patient Education and Counselling, 84, 319-324.

Mikolajczak, M., Petrides, K. V., & Hurry, J. (2009). Adolescents choosing self-harm as an emotion regulation strategy: the protective role of trait emotional intelligence. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 48, 181–193.

Schneider, T.R., Lyons, J.B., & Williams, M (2005). Emotional intelligence and autonomic self-perception: Emotional abilities are related to visceral acuity. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 853-861.

 

Applicaiton in educational settings

Mavroveli, S., Petrides, K. V., Shove, C., & Whitehead, A. (2008). Validation of the construct of trait emotional intelligence in children. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 17, 516–526.

Petrides, K. V., Frederickson, N., & Furnham, A. (2004). The role of trait emotional intelligence in academic performance and deviant behaviour at school. Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 277–293.

Santesso, D. L., Reker, D. L., Schmidt, L. A., & Segalowitz, S. (2006). Frontal electroencephalogram activation asymmetry, emotional intelligence, and externalising bahaviors in 10-year-old children. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 36, 311–328.

Trentacosta, C.J. & Fine, S.E. (2010). Emotion Knowledge, social competence, and behavior problems in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analytic review. Social Development, 19(1), 1-29.

 

Application in training

Nelis, D., Quoidbach, J., Mikolajczak, M., & Hansenne, M. (2009). Increasing emotional intelligence: (How) is it possible? Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 36–41.

Slaski, M. & Cartwright, S. (2002). Health performance and emotional intelligence: An exploratory study of retail managers. Stress and Health, 18, 63-68.

Dulewicz, V., Higgs, M. & Slaski, M (2003) Measuring emotional intelligence: Construct and criterion-related validity. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 18, 405- 420.

Blanch-Hartigan, D., Andrzejewski, S. A., & Hill, K. M. (2012). The Effectiveness of Training to Improve Person Perception Accuracy: A Meta-Analysis. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 34(6), 483–498.

Hurley, C.M. (2012) Do you see what I see? Learning to detect micro expressions of emotion. Motivation and Emotion, 36, 371-381.