Recent Articles on Psychology
10 Telling Signs You’re an Emotionally Intelligent Person
Emotionally intelligent people are the advice-givers among their group of friends. Do you have a friend who seems to know what you’re feeling before you’ve verbalized it? This friend is emotionally intelligent. There are many of those people in the world. They are the healers, the untrained therapists among friends.
Testing for Joy and Grit? Schools Nationwide Push to Measure Students’ Emotional Skills
A recent update to federal education law requires states to include at least one nonacademic measure in judging school performance… . But the race to test for so-called social-emotional skills has raised alarms even among the biggest proponents of teaching them, who warn that the definitions are unclear and the tests faulty.
Should schools be testing students for social-emotional skills such as grit and resilience? The approach has both proponents and critics.
13 Sleep Lessons From A Landmark British Sleep Report
If you’re like most people, these findings probably won’t surprise you:
A recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that a third of Americans don’t get enough sleep. And now, a British report finds that no one is faring any better across the Atlantic.
According to the Royal Society for Public Health — one of the world’s oldest health education organizations — Britons may be missing out on as much as a full night of sleep each week, on average.
Seeing the Light: Emotional Intelligence
We know emotional intelligence is critical to personal and professional development, but how do we define this amorphous concept? A widely accepted definition: Emotional intelligence is the regulation of our own emotions and the ability to recognize, understand, and influence others’ emotions.
Emotional intelligence is both an innate and a learned skill. This article contains some advice for improving it.
© 2016 by Mary Daniels Brown