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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 study tested 60 healthy adults (30 women, 30 men) to see how two types of narcissism — vulnerable and grandiose — relate to emotion regulation. Researchers used questionnaires and a lab task that asked people to either feel naturally or use reappraisal (change how they think) while viewing sad…
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…
