As a young boy, my parents always asked me to self-assess my emotions. We had this magnet on the fridge with the boy who had funky hair and varied faces. Under each face would be a different emotion1. It ranges from “ecstatic” to “disgusted.” Every day I looked at those faces and saw which was the best image of how I felt. Even though I have grown out of the stage in my life where my parents would ask me how I was feeling using a funny chart, looking back on it, I can see the tests they were doing on me to monitor my emotional stability in the beginning. . impressionable years and I monitor my behaviors to see if they fall outside the norm for children my age. This is an informal way of observing emotional intelligence (EI), but actual testing in the field of emotional intelligence is widely contested because some researchers and psychologists consider it to be a a largely useless and counterproductive exercise, claiming that the scores produced do not predict anything important. .According to John Mayer et al, emotional intelligence is defined as "the ability to reason about feelings and emotions to improve thinking." This includes the abilities to accurately perceive emotions, access and generate emotions in ways that facilitate thought, understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and regulate emotions reflexively in order to promote emotional growth and intellectual” (Mayer 197). In their study titled “Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Results, and Implications,” they implemented the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) which would include eight tasks, ultimately measuring each of the four branches of emotional intelligence . The results of this EI test would be used to prove their definition of a...... middle of article ......h on emotional intelligence. " Journal of Organizational Behavior 26.4 (2005): 411-24. Print. Matthews, Gerald, Moshe Zeidner, and Richard D. Roberts. "Emotional Intelligence: A Broken Promise?" Japanese Psychological Research 54.2 (2012): 105-27. Mayer, John D., Peter Salovey, and David R. Caruso. “Emotional Intelligence Tests Raise a Certain. number of key questions."): 32. Web.Roberts, Richard D., Moshe Zeidner and Gerald Matthews "Does Emotional Intelligence Meet Traditional Standards of Intelligence?" Emotion 1.3 (2001). ): 196-231. Print.1 Emotions vocabulary table