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·May 22, 2025·4 min read

AI Shows Higher Emotional IQ than Humans

A new study tested whether artificial intelligence can demonstrate emotional intelligence by evaluating six generative AIs, including ChatGPT, on standard emotional intelligence (EI) assessments. The AIs achieved an average score of 82%, significantly higher than the 56% scored by human participants.

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·October 4, 2023·7 min read

Savoring Bytes: New AI Understands Our Tasty Desires

Researchers engineered an electronic "tongue" that potentially lays a framework for developing artificial intelligence (AI) with emotional intelligence, particularly related to taste and eating habits. This initiative explores the intersection of physiological and psychological factors that determine eating preferences and behaviors in humans, seeking to mimic them in AI systems.

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·March 12, 2021·3 min read

High Emotional Intelligence Can Help to Identify Fake News

Regardless of educational level, people who scored higher in tests of emotional intelligence were better able to identify fake news.

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·July 15, 2019·2 min read

Can videogames promote emotional intelligence in teenagers?

Study finds video games can be helpful to promote emotional intelligence in adolescents.

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·February 26, 2019·3 min read

Our Faces Don’t Always Reveal Our True Emotions

Study reveals context is essential for reading people's emotions.

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·May 5, 2017·1 min read

Taking Folic Acid During Pregnancy Has Positive Effect on Child’s Psychological Development

Summary: Children whose mothers took folic acid during pregnancy demonstrated higher levels of emotional intelligence and resilience later in childhood...

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·January 22, 2013·3 min read

Researchers Map Emotional Intelligence in the Brain

New research involving Vietnam veterans with combat related brain injuries offers the first detailed map of the brain regions which contribute to emotional intelligence.