Naming your emotions can tame the intensity of your feelings by bridging the gap between thoughts and feelings. This story highlights the power of naming your emotions and discusses the scientific findings on the topic.
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Academic Research- The Transitive Property of Emotions
These slides summarize recent academic research into emotional contagion. Specifically, the researchers wanted to see if our emotional states could be passed on not only to someone directly observing our emotional state, but to someone who interacts only with the observer. So can our emotions spread to someone through another person?
Empathically Yours
What is empathy, how does it work in our brains, and what is the effect in school and life?
Centering- A Quick Exercise
This document outlines a simple, quick but powerful exercise to center yourself. Even if you only have a few minutes before a meeting or presentation, this centering exercise can help clear your mind and improve your performance.
Academic Research- Emotional Odors
These slides summarize recent academic research into the relationship between stress-related body odor and social evaluations. Are body odors effective transmitters of emotional data?
Becoming Us, 8 Steps to Grow a Family that Thrives
This is a very special gift of a FULL LENGTH ebook, provided in PDF for EQ Week participants only. Becoming Us walks couples through the eight steps of creating a family that thrives. Written for both mothers and fathers/partners of children 0-5, Becoming Us gives couples the awareness, skills and ability to manage common family […]
The Emotional Journey of Life’s Ups and Downs
This letter and podcast take you through the ABCs of emotional intelligence to help navigate through feelings in times of challenge.
Emotional Intelligence and Success
This is an updated version of the Six Seconds White Paper, Emotional Intelligence and Success. There is a PDF file and PPT slides that go through the scientific basis of EQ, its correlation to success, and how both are related to the KCG Model of EQ.
Academic Research: Social Acceptance and Sharing in Children
These slides summarize recent academic research into middle childhood and sharing behaviors. In particular, the researchers were measuring over a course of 3 years, the relationship between feelings of belonging, sharing, and the children’s ability to sympathize with anonymous others. Descriptions can be found in the notes.
The Wheel of Holistic Perception
This is a tool which will help developing “right relationship.” It is a Venn diagram I call the Wheel of Holistic Perception. When you look at your child’s behavior through each lens of the Wheel you can gain insights into what might be out of balance for him at a given time.
Letter to a Young Innovator
This is the Epilogue from A GROUNDBREAKING BOOK, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first […]
Video: Mary Helen Immordino Yang on Emotion & Learning
What’s the role of emotion in learning? This 2 minute video is from pre-eminent neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino Yang — From NexusEQ on the campus of Harvard University.
Video: Daniel Shapiro on Emotions in Negotiation
How do you handle emotions in negotiation? This short video offers insight from Daniel Shapiro, the Director of the International Negotiation Program at Harvard Law School — From NexusEQ on the campus of Harvard University
Emotional Intelligence and Your Career: EQ for Talent Infographic
Here’s an intriguing infographic from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, suggesting why you might want to develop emotional intelligence as part of your own career capital.
Academic Research- Inspirational Leadership and Group Identity
This short presentation discusses recent academic research into inspirational leadership and group identity. The researchers look at the brain activity of participants as they listen to identical statements from leaders of in-groups, who they identify with, and out-groups. The results are fascinating. In-depth descriptions can be found in the notes.
Feelings with Milo
This colorful worksheet for kids and caregivers teaches key elements of emotional literacy. It can be used many ways, several suggestions included
Academic Research: Forgive and Forget
These slides summarize recent academic research into forgiveness. Specifically, the authors look at the role empathy plays in the deepest, most wholesome type of forgiveness
Taking EQ to the Gym
How can emotional intelligence enhance your workouts — and help you keep them going? Here are practical techniques and tips from Jay Grant
From Emotional Intelligence to Personal Intelligence
Jack Mayer, who co-created the science of emotional intelligence with Peter Salovey in a 1990 paper on the topic, wrote this article explaining background on the origins of EQ, and how it’s led to his new work on Personal Intelligence. A short, interesting read.
Academic Research: Emotion Recognition and Crime
These slides summarize recent academic research into emotion recognition. The researchers sought to find out if negative emotion recognition can be improved, and if so, what impact that would have on subsequent crime. An interesting, relevant article. More in-depth descriptions can be found in the notes.
