Editing Emotional intelligence (section)

==== Criticism ====
Goleman's model of EI has been criticized in the research literature as "[[pop psychology]]".<ref name="Mayer_2008" />

Goleman's early work has been criticized for assuming that EI is a type of intelligence or [[cognitive ability]]. Eysenck writes that Goleman's description of EI contains unsubstantiated assumptions about intelligence in general and that it even runs contrary to what researchers have come to expect when studying types of intelligence.<ref name="auto">{{cite book |author-link=Hans Eysenck |title=Intelligence: A New Look |vauthors=Eysenck HJ |publisher=Transaction Publishers |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-7658-0707-6}}</ref> Similarly, Locke claims that the concept of EI is a misinterpretation of the intelligence construct, and he offers an alternative interpretation: it is not another form or type of intelligence, but intelligence—the ability to grasp [[abstractions]]—applied to a particular life domain: emotions. He suggests the concept should be re-labeled and referred to as a skill.<ref name="locke">{{cite journal |vauthors=Locke EA |year=2005 |title=Why emotional intelligence is an invalid concept |journal=Journal of Organizational Behavior |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=425–431 |doi=10.1002/job.318}}</ref>