Emotional intelligence refers to a broad, often loosely-defined array of aptitudes, competencies and skills for regulating the emotions of self and others. I will discuss how emotional intelligence might be relevant to decision-making, especially in stressful environments. I will also review a series of recent studies of individual differences in information search during tactical decision-making that investigated relationships between emotion and search activity under stressful and nonstressful conditions. Emotional intelligence, measured with a multimedia situational judgment test, was associated with search thoroughness, but not with resilience under stress. I will draw some conclusions on the strengths and weaknesses of the emotional intelligence construct in this context.
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