Emotional Intelligence as a Standard Intelligence

Mayer, John D.
Salovey, Peter
Caruso, David R.
Sitarenios, Gill

¹Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire
²Department of Psychology, Yale University
³Work-Life Strategies, New Canaan, Connecticut
⁴Research and Development, Multi-Health Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

⁵Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to John D. Mayer, Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Conant Hall, 10 Library Way, Durham, New Hampshire 03824. Electronic mail may be sent to [email protected].

Received Date: June 25, 2001; Revised Date: July 2, 2001; Accepted Date: July 6, 2001

Emotion 1(3):p 232-242, September 2001.

The authors have claimed that emotional intelligence (EI) meets traditional standards for an intelligence (). questioned whether that claim was warranted. The central issue raised by Roberts et al. concerning is whether there are correct answers to questions on tests purporting to measure EI as a set of abilities. To address this issue (and others), the present authors briefly restate their view of intelligence, emotion, and EI. They then present arguments for the reasonableness of measuring EI as an ability, indicate that correct answers exist, and summarize recent data suggesting that such measures are, indeed, reliable.