Quelle surprise: Psych students score substantially lower on “dark” traits than business and law students
Recently an analysis was published about a project involving hundreds of Danish students enrolled to begin studying either psychology, politics/law, or business/economics who first took a combination of the Big Five and Dark Triad personality tests. The study discovered Business/economics students scored the highest of all on the Dark Triad, followed by Law/Politics and then psychology. On the other hand psychology students scored “much higher” than the other student groups on the Big Five .....
Read MoreWhere is temperament?
Joshua Freeman, CEO of Six Seconds, put up a very interesting blog recently Emotions, Feelings and Moods: Does anybody know the difference?. According to Joshua the answer is time: Emotions are chemicals and last about six seconds. Feelings are something we sense and occur as the emotion chemicals are processed in our brains & bodies and last for longer than emotions. Moods are not tied to a specific incident, but a collection of inputs and influence by the environment, our physiology, an.....
Read MoreBook Review of Understanding Emotional Intelligence
This is a free e-book published by www.free-management-ebooks.com. The book provides an excellent and even handed introduction to the subject of emotional intelligence. It defines emotional intelligence as “Understanding one’s own feelings, empathy for the feelings of others, and the regulation of emotion in a way that enhances living.” Reasonably enough, it adopts the Goleman competency model. For example here are the six competencies stated for the domain of Self-Management: Emotional s.....
Read MoreBook Review EQ A practical guide
Review of Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Emotions and Raising Your EQ by Ian Tuhovsky I received an email from Ian asking me to honestly review his book. I have given it 2 stars. As someone who has written a book about lifting your emotional intelligence I am the first to admit I would be biased but in fact I must confess that it was my scientific training at the University of Cambridge that probably framed my thinking. In the (slightly longer) second in.....
Read More"Put in a sales perspective, I loved your presentation! I got a lot from what you talked about and I will read your book."
Peter Morris, Executive Officer, Lomax Financial Group
Your presentation on 'Lifting your Level of Emotional Intelligence" to 10 CEOs scored an average 8.9 out of 10 for the topic and 8.5 for the presentation which is great. A couple of the attendees gave you a 10 out of 10, and the comments were:
- Great presentation. Very informative.
- Excellent presentation.
- made me think.
Christi Spring CEO Institute. - web www.ceo.com.au.

