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.