Researcher, author, and educator, Peter Salovey is one of the pioneering scientists in the field of EI; together with Jack Mayer, he published the seminal articles in the field in 1990. Salovey is Dean of Yale College and a Professor of Psychology at Yale University (US). Speaker Web Site Peter Salovey, Ph.D. Peter Salovey and his colleague Jack Mayer defined and tested the concept of emotional intelligence; they wrote the seminal papers in the field in the early 1990s that launched the international scientific EQ movement. Dr. Salovey is Dean of Yale College, Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology and a former chair of the Psychology Department at Yale University. He has written or edited eight books and has authored more than 200 scientific publications - including The Wisdom in Feelings, The Emotionally Intelligent Manager, and Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence.  Professor Salovey is a founding editor of the Review of General Psychology and an associate editor of the new APA journal, Emotion.  His course in Psychology and Law was the most popular course in Yale University history. He is a Justice of the Peace and a licensed psychologist in the State of Connecticut. In his leisure time, he plays stand-up bass with the Professors of Bluegrass. Session Information: Science and Hype: The (re)Evolution of Emotional Intelligence Key Concepts: Why EI is an intelligence and how it can be measured. The team of John D. Mayer, David Caruso, and Peter Salovey have been writing about emotional intelligence (EI) for nearly two decades. We view emotional intelligence as a way of characterizing the skills and abilities that help us to recognize emotions in ourselves and others; understand these feelings and use language to communicate them; harness the power of emotion as a tool in cognitive activities like problem-solving, reasoning, and creativity; and manage emotions both in oneself and in other people. These are competencies, we believe, that can be developed through practice and that are critical in leading organizations. In this talk, Peter Salovey will discuss the historical roots of emotional intelligence, the way in which thinking about it has evolved, and an approach to measuring it as a set of interrelated abilities. He will highlight findings from a program of research establishing the value of emotional intelligence in school, work, and family situations. He will then discuss the hoopla that has surrounded the discussion of emotional intelligence world-wide, and try to separate fact from fiction in discussing the promise and future of EI research and practice. Workshop with Marc Brackett: "Teaching Emotional Intelligence to Middle School Students and Assessing Its Impact." And a description is as follows: In an interactive format, Peter Salovey and Marc Brackett will describe a newly published, experiential curriculum for teaching emotional intelligence to middle school students. This curriculum has already been introduced into several school systems with promising results -- children enjoy the exercises and teachers enjoy presenting the lessons. The impact of this curriculum can be evaluated at the level of individual children using the Youth Version of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT-YV), published this year by Multi-Health Systems, Inc. The workshop will include a discussion of the MSCEIT-YV.