High Emotional Intelligence Dramatically Improves Decision-Making
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A new study finds that people with high emotional intelligence make smarter decisions because they aren’t swayed by their current emotional state.
The emotions can provide very useful information, but sometimes they are not related to the decisions we are trying to make.
Being able to tell one from the other is part of what constitutes emotional intelligence.
Stéphane Côté, the co-author of a new article published in Psychological Science explained:
Read original article“People are driving and it’s frustrating. They get to work and the emotions they felt in their car influences what they do in their offices. Or they invest money based on emotions that stem from things unrelated to their investments.”
Crucially, great decision-making is not about eliminating all emotions: they are a vital source of information.
Those with high levels of emotional intelligence are more likely to ignore those emotions that have nothing to do with their decision.
For those who find it problematic making sense of their emotions, the easiest solution is simply stated (although not always easy to execute): wait until later.
Tags: Emotional Intelligence, The emotions
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