Re: The importance of watching soap operas (Was "A DISTURBING ...")

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:23:09PM -0500, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Sigh. Meant EQ (= Emotional Quotient = "emotianal intelligence"), of course.
>
> Hmm... I'm not so sure that EQ is the same thing as social skills. I'm
> quite an emotional person, but my social skills still suck. :-P
In the book _Emotional Intelligence_ "EQ" is defined as something like
ability to handle your own and other people's emotions, which naturally
includes a lot of social skill stuff.  It doesn't seem to have to do
necessarily with *being* emotional.  OTOH I haven't read that book in
years.  <shrug>

YHL