News & announcements from the ‘Emotional intelligence’ category
Podcast: New Insights on Emotional Intelligence
Monday, July 11th, 2011In this podcast for Management Consulting News, Mike McLaughlin talks with Daniel Goleman about his recent research on the ways brain science suggests we use our minds to be creative when we need to be, build rapport more easily, and stay focused and productive for longer periods of time. Goleman’s new findings are included in…
The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: An Interview with Daniel Goleman
Thursday, May 19th, 2011By Monty McKeever for Tricycle, May 18, 2011. Read the full interview. Tricycle: How does understanding the brain help us manage stress? Daniel Goleman: There are several ways that understanding some brain mechanics and having basic neural tools at hand can help us manage stress. First of all, we have to realize that there’s no…
Stop that Bully
Thursday, May 12th, 2011Skippy was the biggest bully in my grammar school. From a troubled home, Skippy was very unhappy, prone to fits of anger, and very, very mean to kids smaller than him. I thought about Skippy when I read the headlines about the verdicts in the tragic bullying of Phoebe Prince, the 15-year-old from Ireland who…
Picking the Right Brain State for the Job
Sunday, May 8th, 2011The brain is like an instrument we can tune for the job at hand—something like tuning a guitar to the right key for a song. Reading the fine print in a contract, cognitive scientists tell us, takes a very different state than, say, coming up with a clever name for your business. Our emotions are…
Are Women More Emotionally Intelligent Than Men?
Friday, May 6th, 2011Yes, and Yes and No. Emotional intelligence has four parts: self-awareness, managing our emotions, empathy, and social skill. There are many tests of emotional intelligence, and most seem to show that women tend to have an edge over men when it comes to these basic skills for a happy and successful life. That edge may…
Resilience for the Rest of Us
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011There are two ways to become more resilient: one by talking to yourself, the other by retraining your brain. If you’ve suffered a major failure, take the sage advice given by psychologist Martin Seligman in the HBR article “Building Resilience.” Talk to yourself. Give yourself a cognitive intervention and counter defeatist thinking with an optimistic…
Performance Reviews: It’s Not Only What You Say, But How You Say It
Friday, October 15th, 2010Performance reviews are the HR ritual that everyone dreads. And now brain science shows that positive or negative, the way in which that review gets delivered can be a boon or a curse. If a boss gives even a good review in the wrong way, that message can be a low-grade curse, creating a neural…
Daniel Goleman responds to Po Bronson at Newsweek
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Po Bronson is a first-rate journalist, and I’m sure NurtureShock is a wonderful book (I haven’t had a chance to see it yet). But in his Newsweek blog Po has mis-stated several of my positions. So for the record, let me begin to set the record straight by quoting from my Forward to the 10th…
Sitting Quietly, Doing Something
Saturday, July 18th, 2009I recently spent an evening with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, the Tibetan lama who has been dubbed “the happiest man in the world.” True, that title has been bestowed upon at least a few extremely upbeat individuals in recent times. But it is no exaggeration to say that Rinpoche is a master of the art of…
“Empathy” – Who’s Got It, Who Does Not
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009When President Obama tells us he wants a compassionate Supreme Court justice with “empathy” for people’s struggles, he’s wandered into arguments within psychology of what we mean by the term. There are at least three varieties of empathy, each with very different implications for spotting the right candidate. The first, cognitive empathy, means that we…
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.