The “emotional intelligence” construct has been the focus of enormous scrutiny over the past 20 years (Salovey & Mayer, 1990). Much of this interest is based on the so-called “big idea” that first brought widespread attention to it—an idea popularized by Goleman’s best-selling book Emotional Intelligence (1995), in which he claimed that emotional intelligence (EI) can matter more than the intel...

Background and Aim: Researchers believe that emotional intelligence (EI) is a better predictor of a person’s success in life than intelligent quotient. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between the EI and academic performance of senior dental students. Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study evaluated all senior dental students (n=131) of Tehr...

Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by somatic, emotional, cognitive and behavioral component. Emotional intelligence (EI) which defines as the ability to perceive, monitor, employ and manage emotions within one’s and others, is strongly related to healthy psychological functioning. Various studies have been conducted in this field that reveal the role and importanc...

We analyze two German databases: the OLLO database [1] designed for doing speech recognition experiments on speech variabilities, and the Berlin emotional database [2] designed for the analysis and synthesis of emotional speech. The paper tries to find a relation between intrinsic speech variabilities and the emotions. Moreover, we study this relation from the point of view of speech recognitio...