1.  PRABANI PHUKAN  KARTHIK NEELAKANTAN  NITHIN G  GAURAV PRAKASH  RITIKA NAIR

2. Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions. Steve's Short Definition of Emotional Intelligence: An innate ability which gives us our emotional sensitivity and our potential for learning healthy emotional management skills

3. Since 1990, Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer have been the leading researchers on emotional intelligence. “The subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions”

4.  The earliest roots of emotional intelligence can be traced to Darwin’s work on the importance of emotional expression for survival and second adaptation.  In the first half of the 19 th century, some renowned researchers like Edward Thorndike, David Wechsler and Abraham Maslow introduced the concept of Emotional Intelligence and described how people can build their emotional strength.

5.  In 1990, Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer publish their landmark article, “Emotional Intelligence”, which further showed the extensive growth of one’s personal attitude.  In 1995 - The concept of emotional intelligence is popularized after publication of psychologist and New York Times science writer Daniel Goleman’s book “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”.

6.  The first, Emotional Perception, involves such abilities as identifying emotions in faces, music, and stories.  The second, Emotional Facilitation of Thought, involves such abilities as relating emotions to other mental sensations such as taste and color (relations that might be employed in artwork), and using emotion in reasoning and problem solving. (Also: "integrating emotions in thought," Mayer and Cobb)

7.  The third area, Emotional Understanding involves solving emotional problems such as knowing which emotions are similar, or opposites, and what relations they convey.  The fourth area, Emotional Management involves understanding the implications of social acts on emotions and the regulation of emotion in self and others.

8. 1)Perception Appraisal and Expression of Emotion 2) Emotional Facilitation of Thinking 3) Understanding and Analyzing Emotions; Employing Emotional Knowledge 4) Reflective Regulation of Emotions to Promote Emotional and Intellectual Growth

9. Some of the tools used by the above researchers in measuring one’s EI are –  Reuven’s Bar-On model  Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale (MEIS)  Seligman Attribution Style Questionnaire (SASQ)  Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI)  Mayor Salovey and Caruso emotional intelligence test(MSCEIT) Each of these tools used various scales to measure one’s emotional strength (intelligence) such as ability to perceive, identify, understand, and utilize emotions.

10.  Creative tension- Controlling the tension between managing the present and creating the future.  Active choice- Making decisions to act when faced with equally viable options.

11.  Resilience under pressure- Managing your own stress reactions and destructive feelings, dealing with upsets.  Empathetic relationships- Being able to develop relationships of trust and credibility quickly.  Self-awareness and self-control