Links to Emotional Intelligence and Related Web Sites
The following web sites contain information, resources and articles of particular relevance to emotional wisdom, psychological growth and mental health.
Emotional Intelligence Sites
This site is owned by Steve Hein, author of EQ for Everybody.
National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Geneva. Affective Sciences:Emotions in individual behaviour and social processes.
Learning Resource Center: The Santa Barbara City College LRC provides a broad range of resources and assistance in reading, writing and course tutorials. Many good leads to student success. Click on student services.
American Psychological Association: the oldest and largest professional organization that also provides an online monthly newsletter called the APA Monitor.
Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth. 4. A television program that could change your life.
Center for a New American Dream. A new organization created to promote national efforts to turn away from consumerism. Has a Web site that provides a truly excellent list of resources and organizations and Web links to other sites of interest.
National Religious Partnership for the Environment. Includes representatives from Catholic, mainstream Protestant, Evangelical and Jewish churches and has an active task force on consumption.
“The emotions have always been of central concern to men. In every endeavor, in every major human enterprise, the emotions are somehow involved. Almost every great philosopher from Aristotle to Spinoza, from Kant to Dewey, from Bergson to Russell has been concerned with the nature of emotion and has speculated and theorized about its origin, expressions, effects, its place in the economy of human life. Theologians have recognized the significance of certain emotions in connection with religious experience and have made the training of emotions a central, if implicit, part of religious training.
Writers, artists, and musicians have always attempted to appeal to the emotions, to affect and to move the audience through symbolic communication. And the development in the last half century of psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, and psychosomatic medicine has brought the role of emotion in health and disease sharply to our attention (Plutchik, 1962, pp. 3-4).”
