Correct identification of emotions

The people who are emotionally plus smart they are the ones who in many aspects of life manage to succeed quickly, and in the issues labor It is of essential importance to be able to separate feelings or identify them.

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A study published by the Journal of Organizational Behavior , confirms that people who are good at deciphering emotions of your peers are more likely to earn more money .

 

Although managing employees and dealing with people often involves reading their emotions and determine their moods, not everyone is good at that, "he says. Gerhard Blickle , primary author.

 

Correct identification of emotions

The researchers of the University of Bonn They showed the participants of their study a series of voice recordings and images and they were asked to identify the emotions that were presented in them.

On average, the participants were successful in identifying the emotion correct in 77% of cases. Those who reached 80% or more are considered "good", while those who obtained 90% or more of assertiveness They are cataloged as "very good" for this task.

Subsequently, colleagues and managers were asked to evaluate the performance at work of those involved in the study.

With both results, the researchers were able to identify who obtained the best grades by evaluating emotions , are considered as "more sociable and politically skilled" by their bosses and colleagues, than those who scored lower in the task.

But the most interesting fact that Gerhard Blickle indicates is that economic income of people emotionally smarter They were significantly higher.

Blickle indicates that even after controlling for the numerous factors that affect the entry of employees, such as gender, age or academic background, the effect of the ability to recognize emotions about economic retribution persisted.

We often hear that managers talk about understanding and esteem, but when we look at their management behavior, we realize that they have no idea, "says the researcher.

There are techniques that can help improve the emotional intelligence and that it does not hurt to apply, however many of the people who are emotionally smarter develop this skill day by day, being observers constant around him.


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