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Emotional Intelligence and the Ease of Recall Judgment Bias: The Mediating Effect of Private Self‐Focused Attention
Author(s) -
Buontempo Gina,
Brockner Joel
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00300.x
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , emotional intelligence , social psychology , cognitive psychology
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.