Language Department Thinking Critically About Book Report

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Put us in the air and we can't do anything should anything happen to the plane. We, as humans, cannot fly on our own.

RA: Chapter eight also talks about assessing intelligence and there are many ways to do so. Intelligence, however, doesn't just refer to more analytical type of thinking. In the article "Emotional intelligence: A promise unfulfilled?" authors Matthew, Zeidner and Roberts (2012) discuss how emotional intelligence is a fairly new construct in differential psychology. There are many proponents of this construct and they have made powerful arguments for emotional intelligence's importance in both basic and applied psychology (2012).

Emotional intelligence is a bit different than what we might normally think of as intelligence. It is a collection of aptitudes, skills and competencies for dealing with emotions and emotional encounters (Matthew et al. 2012). Perhaps one of the reasons emotional intelligence isn't considered much -- or when it is considered it is thought of as coming in second to other types of intelligence is because there are beliefs that emotions are somewhat more inferior to reasoning.

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The truth is, however, that many people trust their emotional intelligences -- their feelings and emotions -- when it comes to making decisions. Following our emotions may be somewhat more of an Eastern philosophical mindset where the mind is considered to be the gut as opposed to the head. it's not just Eastern philosophy that has thought that emotions are good gauges for deciding what to do, 18th century Romanticism, according to Matthew et al. (2012) valued emotion and inspiration over more analytical styles of thinking. From Romanticism came the quote by Blaise Pascal: "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of" (2012)......

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