Intelligence tests appeared in the early 20th century. The first attempts to measure mental abilities were made by the French psychologist Alfred Binet, who developed a test to identify children with ...

For the most part, IQ was considered a heritable trait and not something you could easily increase. But in the 1960s the first reference to something called Emotional Quotient (EQ), or Emotional ...

He emphasised that when we focus on the being level -- our spiritual nature -- both EQ and IQ naturally develop. The SQ is regarded as the foundation for personal growth, with spirituality being ...

Daniel Goleman, an American psychologist who popularised the term, argued that emotional intelligence matters more than IQ, the conventional idea of intelligence. Yet, parents have been known to ...