If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.