Abstract

The present study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and people's tendency to exhibit the ease of recall bias (emanating from the availability heuristic). Results showed that ability to understand emotions, a central element of emotional intelligence, was inversely related to the ease of recall bias, and that this relationship was mediated by participants' private self-focused attention. Implications for theory and practice, as well as limitations, are discussed.

Citation

Buontempo, G., and Joel Brockner. "Emotional intelligence and the ease of recall judgment bias: The mediating effect of private self-focused attention." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 38, no. 1 (2008): 159-172.

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