The Feelings Master
Careers in fields ranging from private investigation to education prize the ability to interpret both one’s own emotions and those of others. But can students be taught these valuable, real-life skills in a school setting, and how?
Three weeks into my first semester
at Yale College, I am sitting across from the award-winning Psychology professor Marc Brackett. He is casually asking me to explain the difference between jealousy and envy. I can only think — is there one?
The ability to decipher the difference between these two feelings is an example of Emotional Intelligence (EI), a concept developed in the 1990s by Yale Provost Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer of the University of New Hampshire. Their “ability model” separates EI into 4 key components: identifying, using, understanding, and managing
