Thanks OP for posting this link. I have always heard Goldman's work referred to as if it is the gospel, quoted as fact, that he has bias never mentioned or considered. I have known some people to quote him in a very smug way - with apparently the hidden agenda of putting themselves up while putting others down. The uncritical treatment of Goldman's views as fact has concerned me in the past. So this was very refreshing.
These paragraphs were particularly interesting for me:
The results were striking: People who scored high on EQ and Machiavellianism scored remarkably high on the interpersonal deviance scale: They used their emotional skills to demean and embarrass their peers for personal gain. Among participants who scored low on Machiavellianism, EQ mattered little: They scored low in interpersonal deviance. The authors concluded that simply having high EQ doesn?t necessarily promote kindness and compassion. Having high EQ can be used to promote bad behavior.
In a comprehensive review of the dark side of emotional intelligence, Dr. Martin Kildare, Chair of Organizational Behavior at University College London, noted that emotionally intelligent people ?intentionally shape their emotions to fabricate favorable impressions of themselves?The strategic disguise of one?s own emotions and the manipulation of others? emotions for strategic ends are behaviors evident not only on Shakespeare?s stage but also in the offices and corridors where power and influence are traded.?
Now I will read Martin Kildare in full.
20 Aug 2014, 7:15 pm
