Key Note Speaker Series: Keith Oatley: Emotional Intelligence and the Intelligence of Emotions

Starts

Friday, January 30^th 2009 at 7:00 pm

Ends

Friday, January 30^th 2009 at 9:00 pm

Location

Centre for Inquiry Ontario, 216 Beverley St, Toronto ON (1 minute south of College St at St. George St)

Emotional intelligence and the intelligence of emotions
Keith Oatley, University of Toronto

Emotional intelligence has become popular because it is said to be more important than IQ, but that unlike IQ which is said to be fixed, we can improve our EQ. I shall describe the idea of emotional intelligence, as a set of skills of understanding our own and others emotions and I shall suggest ways of improving them. I shall also show that emotions are themselves intelligent: they let us know what is important in our lives, and they set frameworks for our relationships with others when thinking step-by-step would not necessarily work.

Biography from Keith Oatley's website :

Keith Oatley was born in London, England. He was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a First in Psychology After beginning to train in medicine, he did a PhD in Psychology at University College London, and then completed a post-doctoral year in Engineering in Medicine at Imperial College, London. After working at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory’s Autonomics Division, he took up a post as Lecturer in the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex, and during leaves from Sussex he put in stints in the Committee of Mathematical Biology, University of Chicago, and Department of Psychology, University of Toronto. After Sussex, he spent four and a half years as Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Glasgow before moving to Toronto in 1990 to take up his current post as Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology. His principal appointment is in the Dept. of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto, of which he was Chair from 1999-2002. He is cross-appointed to the Dept. of Psychology, and is a member of the Cognitive Science Program at University College. He is a former President of the International Society for Research on Emotions, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He lives in Toronto.

$5, $3 for students and FREE for Friends of the Centre