ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the various chapters of this book. The book highlights the roles that inhibition and facilitation play in the expression of emotion. It suggests how to overcome the pervasive need to reject unwanted aspects of the self. The publication of the book 'Emotional Intelligence' by Daniel Goleman in 1995 led to the sudden popularisation of the earlier proposal for the concept of emotional intelligence by Salovey and Mayer, which in turn was based on earlier proposals such as Gardner's concept of social intelligence. The Schematic Propositional Analogical and Associative Representational Systems (SPAARS) model suggests that an 'intellectual belief' is likely to be represented at the propositional level, and that change may follow an alteration of one's appraisal of a particular event or situation and no longer lead to the generation of emotion.
