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Emotional Intelligence

"Emotional Intelligence" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The ability to understand and manage emotions and to use emotional knowledge to enhance thought and deal effectively with tasks. Components of emotional intelligence include empathy, self-motivation, self-awareness, self-regulation, and social skill. Emotional intelligence is a measurement of one's ability to socialize or relate to others.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Emotional Intelligence" by people in this website by year, and whether "Emotional Intelligence" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 13 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2016
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