Can Reading Boost Your Emotional Intelligence?
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When Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy met it was like hate at first sight. If you’ve read Pride and Prejudice, you’d be familiar with their complicated relationship, Elizabeth rejecting Darcy’s proposal and the letter that followed. What you may not realise is the act of reading Jane Austen could make you more intelligent. Defining human intelligence is complex and has been controversial among psychologists - it includes your capacity for reasoning, planning, problem-solving, abstract thought, self-awareness, communication, creativity and learning. To name a few. In the 1960s psychologist Raymond Cattell theorised that intelligence could be broken down into two types: crystallized and fluid intelligence. Crystallized intelligence is the ability to u...
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When Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy met it was like hate at first sight. If you’ve read Pride and Prejudice, you’d be familiar with their complicated relationship, Elizabeth rejecting Darcy’s proposal and the letter that followed. What you may not realise is the act of reading Jane Austen could make you more intelligent. Defining human intelligence is complex and has been controversial among psychologists - it includes your capacity for reasoning, planning, problem-solving, abstract thought, self-awareness, communication, creativity and learning. To name a few. In the 1960s psychologist Raymond Cattell theorised that intelligence could be broken down into two types: crystallized and fluid intelligence. Crystallized intelligence is the ability to u...
