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Emotional Intelligence: On Definitions, Neuroscience, and Marshmallows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

John Antonakis*
Affiliation:
University of Lausanne
Joerg Dietz
Affiliation:
University of Lausanne
*
E-mail: john.antonakis@unil.ch, Address: Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Organizational Behavior, University of Lausanne, Internef 618, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Abstract

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2010 

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Footnotes

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Department of Organizational Behavior, University of Lausanne.

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