THE FOUR AREAS: 01. PERCEPTION + Accurately identify emotions. This area involves the ability to identify emotions in faces or emotion in designs and landscapes. The ability to correctly identify emotions in others is related to the ability to identify emotion in objects as well. QUESTION: Can you understand how someone is feeling and how do you know this is accurate? 02. FACILITATION + Emotional facilitation of thinking. This is the ability to determine how moods influence thought and how to determine how different moods impact thinking and decision-making. QUESTION: How does emotion factor into decision making? 03. UNDERSTANDING + Understand and reason about emotions. This is the ability to understand how emotions change and alter over time and how simple emotions form more complex emotions as in sadness leading to anger. QUESTION: Can you desribe an example of an emotion changing and how did you recognize the change? 04. MANAGEMENT + Integration emotion and thought to make effective decisions. This area explores how we determine optimal self-management strategies to achieve a certain outcome. It also looks at how we establish the effectiveness of various alternatives in achieving a certain outcome involving other people. QUESTION: How does emotion affect your interpersonal relationships? THE INTERVIEWS >>