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Emotional Intelligence Science and Myth Gerald Matthews, Moshe Zeidner, and Richard D. Roberts A Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Contents Foreword xi Robert J. Sternberg Preface xv I Conceptualizations and Measurement 1 1 Introduction 3 Historical and Sociocultural Context of Emotional Intelligence 3 Conceptions of Emotional Intelligence 9 A Research Agenda for Emotional Intelligence 21 Chapter Synthesis and Preview 28 2 Toward a Science of Emotional Intelligence 31 Toward a Psychometrics of Emotional Intelligence 32 Toward a Theory of Emotional Intelligence 47 Integrating Theory and Psychometrics: Differential Psychology and Emotional Intelligence 57 Emotional Intelligence in the Real World: Practical Applications 74 Conclusion: Toward a Science of EI 79 3 Understanding the Intelligence Component of Emotional Intelligence 81 Why Mess with Intelligence? 81 The History of Intelligence 83 viii Contents The Concept of Intelligence 86 Structural Theories of Intelligence 91 System Models of Intelligence 115 Conclusions 129 4 Emotions: Concepts and Research 133 Conceptualizing Emotion 134 Categories and Dimensions of Emotion 140 Sources of Emotion 150 The Natural Ecology of Emotions 159 Functions and Behavioral Consequences of Emotion 164 Conclusions 171 5 Psychological Assessment and the Concept of Emotional Intelligence 175 Psychometric Issues Revisited 176 Performance Measures of Emotional Intelligence 180 Self-Report Measures of Emotional Intelligence 205 Overlap of Emotional Intelligence with Personality 223 Conclusions 226 II Individual Differences in Emotion and Adaptation 231 6 The Biological Science of Emotional Intelligence 233 The Neuroscience of Emotion 234 Subcortical Control of Emotion: The Amygdala 238 Frontal Control of Emotion 242 Functions of Emotion 248 Conclusions on Biological Models and Emotional Intelligence 253 7 Cognitive Models of Emotion and Self-Regulation 255 Cognitive Or