Among the many justly deserved encomia being heaped on newly invested Yale President Peter Salovey are references to his pioneering work as a psychology scholar in the field of emotional intelligence.
While various versions of the notion of a social intelligence had been discussed for many years, the concept of emotional intelligence began to receive widespread attention, study and utilization after groundbreaking work by Salovey and his colleague John Mayer several decades ago. They studied pre-existing strands of previous research on related topics which they referred to as “scattered.”
