ABSTRACT
In turning the focus of attention to the emotional literacy of groups, it is important to
remember that groups, that is collections of individuals, operate at a number of levels
as defined in Chapter 2. This pointed out that the characteristic of any group, be it risk
attitude or level of emotional literacy, is not merely the sum or the average of the
component parts. However, just as the risk attitude of a group is fundamentally
influenced by the risk attitudes of the individuals making up the group, the emotional
literacy of any group will be directly affected by the emotional literacy of the members
of that group.