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DOMINIC W. MASSARO,
Editor
University of California, Santa Cruz
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: A DISSAPOINTING DECADE
Linking Emotional Intelligence and Performance at Work: Current
Research Evidence With Individuals and Groups.
Edited by Vanessa Urch Druskat, Fabio Sala, and Gerald Mount. Hillsdale,
NJ: Erlbaum, 2006. 292 pp. Paper, $35.50.
Intelligence continues to be one of the most hotly debated topics in psychology. One
recurring question in this debate is whether there are multiple types of intelligence
and, if so, how they are related (Sternberg & Detterman, 1986). Models that emphasize
a general factor are better supported by data but lead to the unpalatable (to
some) conclusion that some people are simply more intelligent than others and that
this difference is manifest in school, in the workplace, and in many other contexts.
Models that focus on multiple distinct intelligences are less clearly supported by the
data but are preferred by many researchers and practitioners in part because they
lead to the conclusion that everyone is intelligent in his or her own way and that it
is not appropriate to rank order people, describing some as smarter and others as
less intelligent.
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