• DOI:10.1207/s15327965pli1503_02
• Corpus ID: 144415437

TARGET ARTICLES: "Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Findings, and Implications"

@article{Mayer2004TARGETA,
  title={TARGET ARTICLES: "Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Findings, and Implications"},
  author={John D. Mayer and Peter Salovey and David R. Caruso},
  journal={Psychological Inquiry},
  year={2004},
  volume={15},
  pages={197 - 215}
}

• J. Mayer, P. Salovey, D. Caruso
• Published 1 July 2004
• Psychology
• Psychological Inquiry

Many people have expressed opinions about the sci entific viability of emotional intelligence (El). El has been said to matter twice as much as IQ (Goleman, 1998, p. 31). Yet, it has been labeled an "elusive con cept" (Davies, Stankov, & Roberts, 1998, p. 989). It hias also, according to some, "proven resistant to ade q[uate measurement" (Becker, 2003, p. 194). Others hlave claimed that a "considerable body of research" suggests that El provides the basis for competencies important "in almost any job" (Cherniss, 2000, p. 10). iBut, "El appears to be more myth than science ... (_Nlatthews, Zeidner, & Roberts, 2002, p. 547). The studiy of El even raises the question of whether there can lbe too many intelligences (Holland & Stemnberg, 2%0(0). Part of the apparent diversity of opinion on El re flects a divide in the field. Initial, broad public expo sure to El or "EQ," was the result of a series of newspaper and magazine articles (e.g., Gibbs, 1995) that drew on a tradebook about El (Goleman, 1995). These naive representations are sometimes reacted to 1by psychologists who are concerned that some of the