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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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- Emotional Intelligences
- Intelligence, Emotional
- Intelligences, Emotional
- Social Intelligence
- Intelligence, Social
- Intelligences, Social
- Social Intelligences
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2010
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- Intelligence (1966-2009)
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- National Library of Medicine. Emotional Intelligence. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D056348. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D056348
- Emotional Intelligence. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence
- Emotional Intelligence. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191591