TY - JOUR
AU - Zeidner, Moshe
AB - Psychological Inquiry Copyright © 2004 by 2004, Vol. 15, No. 3, 179–196 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. TARGET ARTICLES Seven Myths About Emotional Intelligence Gerald Matthews Department of Psychology University of Cincinnati, USA Richard D. Roberts Center for New Constructs Educational Testing Service Princeton, NJ Moshe Zeidner Department of Education Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Emotions University of Haifa, Israel Inspired by an influx of academic research, the writ- sented in both the populist and specialist literature ing of several best-selling trade texts, and frequent me- have little empirical substance (Matthews, Zeidner et dia exposure, emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged al., 2002). Stripped of scientific trappings, it remains recently as one of the most high profile of the psycholog- plausible that EI is nothing but the latest in a long line ical constructs (Matthews, Zeidner, & Roberts, 2002). of psychological fads. On the other hand, because sys- The concept has also prospered due both to cultural tematic scientific research is just beginning, EI could trends and orientations that stress the previously ne- indeed mature into a construct that is theoretically glected role of the emotions (with some claiming it con- meaningful, empirically important, and practically stitutes a zeitgeist) and to 
TI - TARGET ARTICLES: "Seven Myths About Emotional Intelligence"
JF - Psychological Inquiry
DO - 10.1207/s15327965pli1503_01
DA - 2004-07-01
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SP - 179
EP - 196
VL - 15
IS - 3
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