The Science of Emotional Regulation
Why “emotional intelligence” is out and interoception is in
The idea that people needed to build their “emotional intelligence” became a pop-psychology fad in the 90s and early 2000s.
Well, that’s not entirely accurate. The growth of this concept began with an actual research article published in 1990. In that paper, the authors define Emotional Intelligence (EI) as,
“…a set of skills hypothesized to contribute to the accurate appraisal and expression of emotion in oneself and in others, the effective regulation of emotion in self and others…”
— Salovey & Mayer
They outlined skills needed for doing this successfully and, for those of us who are visual learners, arranged them in a neat little flow chart
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