IN CONTEXT
Emotional intelligence
c.400 BCE The philosopher Plato says that all learning has an emotional base.
1930s US psychologist Edward Thorndike describes the concept of “social intelligence”—the ability to get along with other people.
1983 US psychologist Howard Gardner suggests that people have multiple intelligences, including interpersonal, musical, spatial-visual, and linguistic.
1990 US psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer publish the first formal theory of emotional intelligence.
1995 Daniel Goleman publishes Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, which becomes a global best seller.
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