Research Hit: Your Brain May be More Emotionally Intelligent than You Think

New research shows the brain responds to human emotional signals but some may not read this so well

How on earth can a person’s brain be emotionally intelligent when they are not?

Yes, it does sound like a contradiction, doesn’t it! But we also know that the brain can register various activities, such as probability, and patterns, way before this is consciously known by the individual.

So the brain responds but we don’t?

Yes, the brain is constantly picking up information, but we need to filter and interpret this or we need to become aware of it.

And this is precisely what a piece of research into interpreting emotions and predicting actions found out.

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In a collaboration between multiple universities, Marianne Reddan (of Stanford) et al. used brain scanning data of 100 participants as they observed others’ emotions and then actively inferred their intent.

We know humans are very good at reading the room (much better than AI). But the results showed different processes in the brain which explains the differences in what we call emotional intelligence.