Sinead has never been a particularly good student, but she has always been popular. She knows that she reads and responds accurately to others' emotions, and often tells people she has emotional intelligence. Alex, who prefers g theory, disagrees by presenting one of the most common arguments against emotional intelligence, saying that
A)it overlaps too much with Gardner's interpersonal intelligence.
B)the concept of intelligence is being stretched too far from its original focus of mental abilities.
C)there is no way to determine whether emotional intelligence is innate or learned, so the concept doesn't mesh well with the crystallized/fluid intelligences approach.
D)emotional intelligence is not an adaptive ability.
E)g theory has proven emotional intelligence is not a scientific contruct.

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The most common argument against emotional intelligence, especially from proponents of g theory (general intelligence), is that the concept stretches the definition of intelligence too far from its traditional focus on cognitive abilities, such as problem-solving, memory, and reasoning.

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