ABSTRACT
The study of emotional intelligence emerged, in part, from the research area of cognition and affect-an area that was concerned with how emotion changed thought, and vice versa.
The research area of cognition and affect gained in visibility during the years 1978 to 1982 as a consequence of several key publications. First, Isen, Shalker, Clark, and Karp (1978), writing in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, considered the possibility that there existed a “cognitive loop” connecting mood to judgement. Their “loops” described the possibility that, for example, as a person grew happy, he or she might cognitively judge past social behaviors as more helpful and kinder than otherwise, thereby further improving his or her mood. A downward loop was possible as well, with bad moods leading to negative thoughts and to worse feelings.
