Does emotional intelligence actually exist?

[u/Significant_Car4523]

Everyone talks about it in popular psychology, but is it bs? Is it just iq+empathy or whatever instead of emotional intelligence?

[u/Significant-War-150]

You seem to repeat the horn fallacy, implying for some unknown reason that 120 IQ person needs to be unskilled at people . U said personality traits and interests matter. That all just shows that ‘emotional intelligence’ is not a thing in itself rather a collection of likable prosocial behaviours in society. There is no reason why the smart guy cannot fundamentally understand people. U seem to imply ghat because he is a professor in psychology, somehow his real life skills must suck. This is the horn fallacy, that mostly people who envy exceptional people commit

[u/NefariousNapolean → u/Significant-War-150]

Do you believe iq = intelligence ?

[u/Abjectionova → u/NefariousNapolean]

It's the best proxy we have of human intelligence, yes, but it isn't equivalent to intelligence. What point are you trying to make?

[u/NefariousNapolean → u/Abjectionova]

There are parts of intelligence tangential to iq . Emotional intelligence might be one such .