Review: Study of Emotional Intelligence

This paper is traces the evolution of emotional intelligence as a theory and goes on to give a literature review of the same. Emotional Intelligence is attracted to interest in the field of education as a vehicle to improve their emotional development. People with highly developed EI are proven to be more successful in the workplace. They can use their emotions as clues to what their body, mind & soul are trying to tell them.  It discusses the different concepts and beliefs pertaining to emotional & cognitive aspect, how it culminated in the theory of emotional intelligence (EI). It also discusses the three major models of emotional intelligence, their contribution to the theory and finally closes with a brief discussion on future improvement of the theory.