Emotional intelligence Emotional intelligence (EI) can be defined as the ability to monitor one's own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior.[1] There are three models of EI. The ability model, developed by Peter Salovey and John Mayer, focuses on the individual's ability to process emotional information and use it to navigate the social environment.[2] The trait model as developed by Konstantin Vasily Petrides, "encompasses behavioral dispositions and self perceived abilities and is measured through self report" [3] The final model, the mixed model is a combination of both ability and trait EI, focusing on EI being an array of skills and characteristics that drive leadership performance, as proposed by Daniel Goleman.[4] It has been argued that EI is either just as important as one's intelligence quotient (IQ). History[edit] Definitions[edit] Ability model[edit] Measurement[edit]
Counseling the Gifted: Establishing identity; finding self Practicing Certain Poses Creates a Sense of Power When suiting up with that “power tie,” you may also want to strike a pose – a power pose, that is. New research indicates that holding a pose that opens up a person's body and takes up space will alter hormone levels and make the person feel more powerful and more willing to take risks. "These poses actually make you more powerful," said study researcher Amy C.J. Cuddy, a social psychologist at the Harvard Business School. The opposite also proved true: Constrictive postures lowered a person's sense of power and willingness to take risks. Cuddy teaches the results of the study to her students. "I literally watch M.B.A. students adjust their posture as I’m telling them about the findings," Cuddy told LiveScience. The power of posture In the study, researchers randomly assigned 42 participants, 26 of them women, to assume and hold a pair of either low- or high-power poses. Subjects also were asked to rate how "powerful" and "in charge" they felt. How universal is it? Posing in private The trick
Effective Thinking Skills Course - The Edward de Bono online course in Thinking The Online de Bono Thinking Skills Course At last! A distributed on-line learning course designed by Edward de Bono. The course is divided into three parts or modules that teach the powerful thinking tools and creativity techniques developed by Dr. de Bono. The aim of this course is to train people in thinking and to give them 'self esteem' in their ability to think. "Thank you very much for this excellent course. The course consists of three modules: Basic Thinking ToolsThinking SituationsCreativity and Lateral Thinking This module consists of sections on: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. In this course you will use basic thinking tools and develop skills in their use by practising them on the sort of problems that you might encounter in real life. This course is based on thirty years' experience in the teaching of thinking to thousands of youngsters and adults. The course promotes a "systematic" approach to the development of thinking skills.
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It We can't be the alpha dog all of the time. Whatever our personality, most of us experience varying degrees of feeling in charge. Some situations take us down a notch while others build us up. New research shows that it's possible to control those feelings a bit more, to be able to summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when it's needed: for example, during a job interview or for a key presentation to a group of skeptical customers. "Our research has broad implications for people who suffer from feelings of powerlessness and low self-esteem due to their hierarchical rank or lack of resources," says HBS assistant professor Amy J.C. “It’s not about the content of the message, but how you’re communicating it.” The result? "We used to think that emotion ended on the face," Cuddy says. The experiment In their article, to be published in a forthcoming Psychological Science, Cuddy and coauthors Dana R. Why we judge “It’s about understanding what moves people.” About the author
The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique - Who was F. Matthias Alexander? Who Was Frederick Matthias Alexander? F.M. Alexander (1869-1955) was an Australian actor who began to experience chronic laryngitis whenever he performed. His health improved to such an extent that his friends and several of the doctors he had consulted earlier persuaded him to teach others what he had learned. F. Nicholas Brockbank, a British Alexander Technique teacher, has written an excellent article titled, What Did Alexander Discover - And Why is it Important? Alexander Talk includes an MP3 conversation about F. Just about every description of the Alexander Technique has some biographical information about Frederick Matthias Alexander, or "FM" as he is often referred to in the Alexander community. Click here to view a collection of photos and a video of F. If you would like to learn more about Alexander's life, four good books are: FM - The Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander: Founder of the Alexander Technique by Michael BlochF. back to top
Embodied cognition In philosophy, the embodied mind thesis holds that the nature of the human mind is largely determined by the form of the human body. Philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and artificial intelligence researchers who study embodied cognition and the embodied mind argue that all aspects of cognition are shaped by aspects of the body. The aspects of cognition include high level mental constructs (such as concepts and categories) and human performance on various cognitive tasks (such as reasoning or judgment). The aspects of the body include the motor system, the perceptual system, the body's interactions with the environment (situatedness) and the ontological assumptions about the world that are built into the body and the brain. Philosophy[edit] Psychology[edit] Visual Search[edit] Graph of the visual search task results showing that participants made less object orientation errors when grasping than pointing. Distance Perception[edit] Perspective[edit] Language Comprehension[edit]
Dualism (philosophy of mind) René Descartes's illustration of dualism. Inputs are passed on by the sensory organs to the epiphysis in the brain and from there to the immaterial spirit. In philosophy of mind, dualism is the position that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical,[1] or that the mind and body are not identical.[2] Thus, it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism, in the mind–body problem.[1][2] Ontological dualism makes dual commitments about the nature of existence as it relates to mind and matter, and can be divided into three different types: Substance dualism asserts that mind and matter are fundamentally distinct kinds of substances.[1]Property dualism suggests that the ontological distinction lies in the differences between properties of mind and matter (as in emergentism).[1]Predicate dualism claims the irreducibility of mental predicates to physical predicates.[1]
Epiphenomenalism Epiphenomenalism is a mind-body philosophy marked by the belief that basic physical events (sense organs, neural impulses, and muscle contractions) are causal with respect to mental events (thought, consciousness, and cognition). Mental events are viewed as completely dependent on physical functions and, as such, have no independent existence or causal efficacy; it is a mere appearance. Fear seems to make the heart beat faster; though, according to epiphenomenalism, the state of the nervous system causes the heart to beat faster.[1] Because mental events are a kind of overflow that cannot cause anything physical, epiphenomenalism is viewed as a version of monism.[2] Development[edit] During the seventeenth century, Rene Descartes argued that animals are subject to mechanical laws of nature. Thomas Henry Huxley agreed with Descartes that behavior is determined solely by physical mechanisms, but he also believed that humans enjoy an intelligent life. Arguments for Epiphenomenalism[edit]
Body Quotes, Sayings about the Human Body Related Quotes Clothing Exercise Health Mind Soul The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. ~Jim Rohn Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. The word arse is as much god as the word face. To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? How idiotic civilization is! Scars are tattoos with better stories. The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. Beyond my body my veins are invisible. The body is your temple. The body never lies. I love the body.
Neuroanthropology: Evolution and Emotional Embodiment Embodied Emotion Perception Amplifying and Dampening Facial Feedback Modulates Emotion Perception Accuracy David T. Neal, University of Southern California, 3620 South McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA Email: d.neal@usc.edu Abstract How do we recognize the emotions other people are feeling? Article Notes David T. © Social and Personality Psychology Consortium 2011