Emotionally intelligent people are usually directed outward, toward those around them, not as selfish people who usually have lower levels of emotional intelligence.
Psychologists have come up with methods for measuring the degree and form of care with others, such as intellectual level assessed. Care about others or to realize how others feel called empathy, and is one of the characteristics of emotional intelligence. We must remember the difference between empathy and sympathy.
Charles Darwin was the first person to the role of emotion in animal systems’ signal to study. Bad Wolf facial hunter sign that a dangerous situation. People managed to survive by the ability to read emotions. Emotional reaction is caused by a lower, more primitive parts of the brains called the limbic system and hippocampus. Humans’ higher, the neocortex area called brains more developed in those affected by the earlier parts of the brains called emotional. The neocortex is involved and functioning when complex decisions (eg to solve problems, or interaction with people), but some of the brains is active. Decisions and reactions to events and people influenced by emotions.
Realize the optimal functioning of emotional intelligence requires higher brain functions and lower. This way, people who know what to do and how best to do when faced with different situations and people.
