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Posted on: January 21, 2022
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In the wonderful Disney film, Inside Out, the plot revolves around five emotions running the minds of the people they inhabit. The emotions are joy, sadness, anger, fear and disgust, and the movie provides parents with abundant material to get conversations going with their children about identifying their own emotions.
The older we get, though, the more we discover that our emotions consist of many more — and more complicated — emotions than the basic five. In recent years, psychologists have developed a related concept known as “emotional intelligence.” Although it’s an intriguing idea, it’s harder to quantify emotional intelligence than general intelligence. But here’s where common sense comes into play — you can recognize an emotionally intelligent person when you see one. Writing for Very Well Mind, Kendra Cherry says “Emotionally intelligent people engage in a number of habits and behaviors that contribute to their ability to manage their own emotions and understand the feelings of others. Do you know anyone who is keenly attuned to his or her own feelings, capable of expressing emotions in an appropriate way, as well as empathetic and understanding of how others are feeling? That person is probably a very emotionally intelligent individual.”
Are there other signs of emotional intelligence? Absolutely, and Cherry points to the following indicators.
Read the entire Very Well Mind article — which includes an Emotional Intelligence quiz — here.
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