My Newest Book – The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights
Posted on Tuesday March 29th 2011
My new digital book, The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights, fills a gap between my last books on social intelligence and on leadership, and my next book, which will not be out for a year or two.
The digital format solves a problem for me: how to make available a critical mass of new learning that does not have the full heft of a regular book. This digital book pulls together a wide range of findings into some fascinating aspects of emotional intelligence. This is not an exhaustive, technical review of scientific data – this is a work in progress that focuses on actionable findings, on new insights you can use:
- The academic debate on whether such an entity as “emotional intelligence” that differs from personality and from IQ gets a powerful answer from brain research.
- Where the brain’s ethical radar resides – it’s not where you think.
- The neural dynamics of creativity tell us why putting an innovative puzzle aside can be part of the solution.
- Why the brain circuitry for drive, persistence, and motivation holds the answer to disengagement, a workplace epidemic.
- How to enhance the brain states underlying optimal performance.
- The simple key to rapport, resonance, and interpersonal chemistry.
- Brain 2.0: our brain on the web – and the neural blindspot that we ignore at our own risk.
- Why woman are more empathic than men – and when they are not.
- The dark side of emotion intelligence: The Bernie Madoff syndrome.
- How to make learning in emotional intelligence last.









Welcome to the website and blog of psychologist Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of the New York Times bestseller Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. Dr. Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. Working as a science journalist, Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam Books) was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year-and-a-half; with more than 5,000,000 copies in print worldwide in 40 languages, and has been a best seller in many countries.