A new study finds that people with high emotional intelligence make smarter decisions because they aren’t swayed by their current emotional state.
The emotions can provide very useful information, but sometimes they are not related to the decisions we are trying to make.
Being able to tell one from the other is part of what constitutes emotional intelligence.
Yip and Côté (2013) ran two experiments to test how different people deal with spurious emotional states that are not related to the decision at hand.
In one, participants were made to feel anxious by being asked to prepare an impromptu speech. Then they were asked whether they wanted to sign up to a flu clinic.
The results showed that people with higher emotional intelligence were more aware that the experimentally-induced anxiety they felt was not related to the decision about the flu clinic.
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Category(s):Emotional Intelligence
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