Peter Salovey
Peter Salovey (born February 21, 1958 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) is an American social psychologist . He owes his fame to his research in the field of emotional intelligence . Salovey developed this concept together with John D. Mayer in the 1990s. Mayer and Salovey's insights were popularized in 1995 by Daniel Goleman's book EQ. Emotional intelligence .
life and work
Salovey studied psychology and sociology at Stanford University and received his doctorate in psychology in 1986. Since then he has been teaching and researching at Yale University . His areas of interest are people's feelings and health behavior. Among his outstanding achievements is the co-development of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), a scientific set of instruments with which emotional intelligence can be measured in a similar way to linguistic, mathematical and logical intelligence . In addition, Salovey u. a. investigated how effective cancer and HIV / AIDS health education is. Salovey has won several science prizes and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.
Publications (selection)
Essays
- with John D. Mayer and Maria DiPaolo: Perceiving affective content in ambiguous visual stimuli: A component of emotional intelligence. In: Journal of Personality Assessment. Vol. 54, 1990, pp. 772-781.
- with John D. Mayer: Emotional intelligence (PDF file; 342 kB). In: Imagination, Cognition, and Personality. Volume 9, 1990, pp. 185-211.
- with John D. Mayer: The intelligence of emotional intelligence. In: Intelligence. Volume 17, Issue 4, 1993, pp. 433-442.
- with John D. Mayer: Emotional intelligence and the construction and regulation of feelings. In: Applied and Preventive Psychology. Volume 4, 1995, pp. 197-208.
- with John D. Mayer, Susan L. Goldman, Carolyn Turvay, and Tibor P. Palfai: Emotional attention, clarity, and repair: Exploring emotional intelligence using the Trait Meta-Mood Scale. In: JW Pennebaker (Ed.): Emotion, disclosure, and health. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC 1995, pp. 125-154.
- with John D. Mayer: What is emotional intelligence? In: Peter Salovey, D. Sluyter (Eds.): Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Implications for Educators. Basic Books, New York 1997, pp. 3-31.
Books
- with Jefferson A. Singer: The Remembered Self: Emotion and Memory in Personality. Free Press, 1993, ISBN 0-02-901581-2 .
- The Intelligent Emotions , Brenzel, 1994
- with Lisa Feldman Barrett (Ed.): The Wisdom in Feeling: Psychological Processes in Emotional Intelligence. The Guilford Press, 2002, ISBN 1-57230-785-4 .
- with Alexander J. Rothman (Ed.): Social Psychology of Health: Key Readings. Psychology Press, 2003, ISBN 1-84169-017-1 .
- with David R. Caruso : The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: How to Develop and Use the Four Key Emotional Skills of Leadership. Jossey-Bass, 2004, ISBN 0-7879-7071-9 .
Web links
- Peter Salovey Yale University
- Peter Salovey Social Psychology Network
- Peter Salovey Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (with extensive list of publications)
Individual evidence
- ↑ John D. Mayer, Peter Salovey, David R. Caruso: The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). Toronto, Ontario: Multi-Health Systems, 2002; The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salovey, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American personality psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge, Massachusetts |