Facts about Daniel Goleman

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   Goleman's focus on emotional intelligence emerged partly from his 1974 doctoral dissertation at Harvard examining altered states of consciousness and meditation's effects on the brain.

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   Goleman's emotional intelligence model identifies four core competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management, which form the foundation of his psychological framework.

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   A 2002 study Goleman co-authored found that emotional intelligence accounts for nearly 90 percent of what separates high performers from peers with similar technical skills and IQ.

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   Goleman's research on emotional intelligence drew heavily from neuroscientist Paul Ekman's studies on facial expressions and emotion recognition during the 1980s and 1990s.

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   Throughout the 1980s, Goleman reported on brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times, covering neuroscience research that later influenced his emotional intelligence theory.

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   Goleman's 1998 book Working with Emotional Intelligence expanded his framework to organizational and workplace contexts, establishing him as a leading voice in business psychology.

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   Harvard University hired Daniel Goleman as science journalist and later lecturer, where he taught courses on consciousness and brain science during the 1990s and 2000s.

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   In 1995, psychologist Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence, which spent 18 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

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