ABSTRACT
Since first coined by Thorndike (1920) and echoed later by Guilford (1967) psychologists have been interested in the “social intelligences”. These are nearly always put in “inverted commas” because, strictly speaking, they are not intelligences but conceived of as social skills, even dispositions, that have both multiple causes and multiple consequences. As Locke (2005) has noted for the most famous of the multiple intelligences, notably emotional intelligence, “the concept of emotional intelligence is invalid because it is not a form of intelligence and because it is defined so broadly and inclusively that it has no intelligible meaning” (p. 425).
