HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–What We Know About Emotional Intelligence, a book by Prof. Moshe Zeidner, Director of the Laboratory for Research in Personality, Emotions, and Individual Differences at the University of Haifa, with G. Matthews and R. Roberts, has received the PROSE Award for the most outstanding book in the category of Biomedicine and Neuroscience for 2009.
The prestigious award was recently announced by the American Association of Publishers, including this work in its selection of the most outstanding professional and scholarly publications for 2009. What We Know About Emotional Intelligence: How It Affects Learning, Work, Relationship, and Our Mental Health was chosen by a panel of judges representing peer publishers, librarians and medical professionals. “This is a notable honor,” Prof. Zeidner exclaimed.
The work, published by MIT Press, examines current knowledge about emotional intelligence – the ability to perceive, regulate, and communicate emotions, to understand emotions in ourselves and others – with the goal of translating it into practical recommendations in work, school, social, and psychological contexts. The authors discuss what emotional intelligence is, why the concept has such appeal today, how it develops, and its usefulness in the real world—in school curricula, the workplace, and treating psychological dysfunction.
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