AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles
from top publications available through your library. Emotions
are internal events that coordinate many psychological
subsystems including physiological responses, cognitions, and
conscious awareness. Emotions typically arise in response to a
person's changing relationships. When a person's relationship to
a memory, to his family, or to all of humanity changes, that
person's emotions will change as well. For example, a person who
recalls a happy childhood memory may find that the world appears
brighter and more joyous (e.g., Bower, 1981). Because emotions
track relationships in this sense, they convey meaning about
relationships (Schwarz & Clore, 1983). Emotional intelligence
refers to an ability to recognize the meanings of emotions and
their relationships, and to reason and problem-solve on the
basis of them. Emotional intelligence is involved in the
capacity to perceive emotions, assimilate emotion-related
feelings, understand the information of