He is now in his 70’s, his serene smile and penetrating gaze still powerfully holding our attention. It helps us understand what a great power emotions have over what we are, what we do and how we relate.ĭaniel Goleman and Emotional Intelligenceĭaniel Goleman started as a journalist at The New York Times and is today the guru of Emotional Intelligence. Just 10 years later, an American psychologist and journalist named Daniel Goleman began something that’s still going on today. However, it was in 1985 when the term “emotional intelligence” appeared for the first time, in Wayne Payne’s doctoral thesis, entitled “A study of emotions: the development of emotional intelligence”. Later, Howard Gardner himself would lay the first a foundation with the seventh of his intelligences, so-called interpersonal intelligence, which is undoubtedly very similar to emotional intelligence. Then in the 1940’s, David Wechsler made it clear that no intelligence test could be valid if emotional aspects were not taken into account. Thorndike described what he called “social intelligence”, that basic ability to understand and motivate other people.
Professor Goleman did not formulate it, he only popularized it in 1995 in his book “Emotional Intelligence”, which has already sold more than 5 million copies.įor example, as early as 1920, Edward L. Where then is the so-called “emotional intelligence” of Daniel Goleman? Well actually you may be interested to know that the essence of this idea has always been there throughout the history of psychology. “The key to achieving a high collective intellectual quotient is social harmony”
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