Odysseus, Emotional Intelligence, and the Plot of the Odyssey.
It is well recognized amongst psychologists that individuals exhibit not one but multiple intelligences (Gardner 1993). Perhaps the most conspicuous of these, especially in interpersonal contexts, is emotional intelligence: that ability to understand and predict one's own emotions, and those of othe...
| Publicado en: | Mnemosyne Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 351 - 369 |
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2019
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