Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Expression
- Daniel Goleman’s book about emotional intelligence (1995) promoted the idea that the ability to understand and employ emotional information is an important skill.
- Part of that is expressing our emotions (through writing, body language, or talking with other people), and studies show that this process could have some real health benefits.
- Research linked the repression of negative emotions to increased stress, and research suggests that writing about feelings is associated with better health outcomes for breast-cancer patients, people with asthma, and people who’ve experienced a traumatic event.
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