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Talking Emotions
Renowned child psychologist Dr Louise Porter explains emotional
intelligence and why it is so important
E
motional intelligence is the
ability to recognise and to
process our own and others’
emotions so that we can use
these as a basis for reasoning and
problem solving, in order to produce an
appropriate response. In this way, it is
actually social-emotional intelligence,
because we use it to understand others
as well as ourselves.
It is the ability to integrate thinking
and emotions so that our responses can
be ap