TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotional intelligence and social perception
AU - DeBusk, Kendra P. A.
AU - Austin, Elizabeth J.
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - One of the key facets of emotional intelligence (EI) is the capacity of an individual to recognise emotions in others. However, this has not been tested cross-culturally, despite the body of research indicating that people are better at recognising facial affect of members of their own culture. Given the emotion recognition aspect of EI, it would seem that EI should be related to correctly identifying emotion in others regardless of race. In order to test this, a social perception inspection time task was carried out in which participants (41 Caucasian and 46 Far-East Asian) were required to identify the emotion on Caucasian and Far-East Asian faces that were happy, sad, or angry. Results from this study indicate that El was not related to correctly identifying facial expressions. The results did confirm that participants are better able to recognise people of their own ethnicity, though this was only applicable to negative emotions. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - One of the key facets of emotional intelligence (EI) is the capacity of an individual to recognise emotions in others. However, this has not been tested cross-culturally, despite the body of research indicating that people are better at recognising facial affect of members of their own culture. Given the emotion recognition aspect of EI, it would seem that EI should be related to correctly identifying emotion in others regardless of race. In order to test this, a social perception inspection time task was carried out in which participants (41 Caucasian and 46 Far-East Asian) were required to identify the emotion on Caucasian and Far-East Asian faces that were happy, sad, or angry. Results from this study indicate that El was not related to correctly identifying facial expressions. The results did confirm that participants are better able to recognise people of their own ethnicity, though this was only applicable to negative emotions. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.026
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.026
M3 - Article
VL - 51
SP - 764
EP - 768
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
SN - 0191-8869
IS - 6
ER -