Friday, May 25, 2012

What Are The Ramifications For High School Counselors and Disciplinarians?

From Science Daily:
People who rate themselves as having high emotional intelligence (EI) tend to overestimate their ability to detect deception in others. This is the finding of a paper published in the journal Legal and Criminological Psychology on18 May 2012...

Professor Porter says: "Taken together, these findings suggest that features of emotional intelligence, and the decision-making processes they lead to, may have the paradoxical effect of impairing people's ability to detect deceit.

1 comment:

  1. Can't you just hear the thoughts of the students hoodwinking the nice counselors: "Suckers!!"

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