The authors aim is not to dismiss work on EI out of hand, but to examine where the first wave of research on the construct is meeting barriers to progress, and whether those barriers can be overcome. This article focuses on what we see as the key shortcomings of current work on EI and the prospects for an eventual science of EI. The authors also identify weaknesses in evidence and argument that challenge the value of the EI construct. In this article, we examine seven myths about EI, that is, strong, widely believed claims that purportedly give the concept of EI scientific credibility.
However, scientific investigation of a clearly identified construct of EI is sparse.
The field has increasingly important implications for society, particularly in the impetus to improve emotional functioning in real life.
The concept has also prospered due both to cultural trends and orientations that stress the previously neglected role of the emotions (with some claiming it constitutes a Zeitgeist) and to increasing efforts at standardized assessment of individual differences in EI. Inspired by an influx of academic research, the writing of several best-selling trade texts, and frequent media exposure, emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged recently as one of the most high profile of the psychological constructs.
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