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Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a set of skills for noticing, understanding and managing your own feelings and other people’s feelings. Employers and experts say EQ helps at work by improving relationships, morale and productivity, and the Covid-19 pandemic made these skills more important. A Gallup survey reported that the share…
This article reviews theory and research on how people and cultures shape each other. It defines the self as the “me” at the center of experience — a developing sense of awareness and agency that forms as a person (both brain and body) becomes tuned to different environments. The authors…
Scientists reviewing lab rat studies say juvenile 'play fighting' helps shape the social brain. Research over the past 100+ years shows that when young rats are deprived of normal peer play during the juvenile period, adult rats show socio-cognitive problems and changes in neurons in the prefrontal cortex, especially the…
This study tested whether anger and aggressive actions are linked differently for men and women. Four hundred twenty-four adults did a behavioral aggression task, and 304 of them also answered questions about their typical anger. Men and women showed similar amounts of aggression overall. However, higher trait anger predicted more…
This study looked at people who were left by a partner in the past 6 months (136 people, mean age 30.4). It asked about short-term “dysfunctional” behaviors after a breakup, such as persistent calls or messages, threats, sending unwanted objects, and attempts to defame an ex. People with a secure…
Emotional intelligence (EI) here means real, testable skills for noticing, understanding, using, and managing emotions. Researchers now favor ability-based tests over self-reports because self-reports often look like personality. But ability-based EI has measurement problems and only small, inconsistent links to real-world outcomes. Some studies find tiny or near-zero links with…
Researchers used moment‑to‑moment surveys (EMA) in two adult samples (N = 122 and 127) to map how attachment feelings change across one week (4629 and 5322 successful observations, with 7–10 surveys per day). They focused on three dynamic features: baseline (a person’s usual level), variability (how much it swings), and…
Emotional clarity means knowing and naming your own feelings. The paper reviews past research and argues that momentary or "state" emotional clarity — how clearly you understand your feelings in the moment — likely shows a person’s fluid emotional intelligence better than traditional tests or trait self-reports. The authors say…
