emotional intelligence

Hey everyone, So I am an INTJ female and I am (as the title describes it) dating an ENTJ male. I have read so many articles on how our two personalities are basically the ideal combination because you have the scientist and the CEO working together, but I don't feel like we are that great of a...

So my latest obsession has been the idea of emotional intelligence. People with high emotional intelligence can recognize their own and other people's emotions and effectively use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior. INTPs have an interesting relationship with feelings. It's...

Hypothesis: Fi & Fe are intrapersonal and respectively interpersonal intelligence, measured as EQ Intelligence definitions: Intrapersonal Intelligence - Sensitivity to one’s own feelings, goals, and anxieties, and the capacity to plan and act in light of one’s own traits. Intrapersonal...

This is purely my opinion and is in NO way to be mistaken for type of propaganda or objectivity. This is how I see it with what I know and should be looked at as something to build from NOT live by. Q: You really think empathy is a basic instinct? I was going to ask you yesterday if you...

I've always had this problem. Most of the times my emotions are shallow (beware: not fake; they're real, they just don't mean much and fade away after a few minutes or a couple of hours at most) and don't cause me any problem. And when they're shallow, I have no problems showing them. But when...

We're known for being generally unflappable in the face of adversity. Either that, or we're ticking time bombs. How do you respond to, express, and manage volatile negative emotions once they hit? How do these manifest in you? a) anger/rage b) grief c) envy d) jealousy e) fear/terror f)...

I saw this in the INFJ forum and I didn't track down a corresponding INFP version. This is an emotional intelligence test: Test your social intelligence It is from harvard- it shows you photos of eyes and you decipher what emotions the individual is experiencing. It tells you your score at the...

Here's a post I recently wrote in the ENTJ forum. I might write more about this; it's become an increasingly important issue to me . - - - - I wrote a beautiful response, and it all got erased... but I'm passionate about this topic, being a converted ENTJ who now realizes how important...

It's pretty well accepted that INFPs crush hard! It makes sense -- we idealize, we feel deeply, we envision the future. Today i'm thinking about how this tendency toward emotional entanglement isn't always healthy. To an extent it's OK, but when we grant one person such control over our sense...