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Today you learn about why students with greater emotional intelligence do better in school,

how scientists solved an 80-year mystery of how atoms split, and an adorable discovery that changes what we know about the

canine brain. spoiler it involves wolf puppies. Get ready for a cuteness

overload. Let's set us fast some curiosity. Your Intelligence Quotient, or IQ, isn't everything.

According to new research published in the journal Psychological Bulletin,

High Intelligence is great, but we absolutely have to pay attention to EQ, as in

emotional intelligence. I mean emotional quotient technically, but we're going to call it

emotional intelligence. That's what to call it emotional intelligence.

That's what most researchers do.

Yeah.

So the researchers in this study found that students do better in school when they can understand and

manage their emotions.

And emotional intelligence is relatively new to academic research.

The concept was first conceived in the 1990s, and it refers to your ability to monitor and discriminate between the emotions of both yourself and others, and to use that knowledge to guide your actions.

Past research suggests that people with high emotional intelligence generally perform better at their jobs, and experience

greater health and well-being throughout their lives.

That's why a lot of schools have started social and emotional learning programs to help develop students emotional

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