The concept of Emotional Intelligence was first introduced by:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Salovey and Mayer
The concept of emotional intelligence was first introduced by Salovey and Mayer, who saw it as the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ emotions, to tell them apart and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions.
The others are names from the study of intelligence: Howard Gardner gave the theory of multiple intelligences (its interpersonal and intrapersonal types come close to the idea, but he did not coin the term); Charles Spearman the two-factor theory; and Binet and Simon built the first intelligence test.
Note: A similar question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2023 on 02-06-2023 (Slot 1).
NCERT (2025-26): “Emotional Intelligence … What do they lack? Some psychologists believe that the source of their difficulty may be a lack of emotional intelligence. This concept was first introduced by Salovey and Mayer who considered emotional intelligence as ‘the ability to monitor one’s own and other’s emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one’s thinking and actions’. Emotional Quotient (EQ) is used to express emotional intelligence in the same way as IQ is used to express intelligence.…” |