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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

habits --- impulsivity --- addiction --- inhibitory control abilities --- impulse control (pathology) disorders

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Nowadays, not only psychologists are interested in the study of Emotional Intelligence (EI). Teachers, educator, managers, employers, and people, in general, pay attention to EI. For example, teachers would like to know how EI could affect student’s academic results, and managers are concerned about how EI influences their employees’ performance. The concept of EI has been widely used in recent years to the extent that people start to applying it in daily life. EI is broadly defined as the capacity to process and use emotional information. More specifically, according to Mayer and Salovey, EI is the ability to: “1) accurate perception, appraise, and expression of emotion; 2) access and/or generation of feelings when they facilitate thought; 3) understand emotions and emotional knowledge; and 4) regulate emotions to promote emotional and intellectual growth” (Mayer and Salovey 1997, p. 10). When new information arises into one specific area of knowledge, the work of the scientists is to investigate the relation between this new information and other established concepts. In this sense, EI could be considered as a new framework to explain human behaviour. As a young concept in Psychology, EI could be used to elucidate the performance in the activities of everyday life. Over the past two decades, studies of EI have tried to delimitate how EI is linked to other competences. A vast number of studies have reported a relation between EI and a large list of competences such as academic and work success, life satisfaction, attendee to emotions, assertiveness, emotional expression, emotional-based decision making, impulsive control, stress management, among others. Moreover, recent researches have shown that EI plays an important role in the prediction of behaviour besides personality and cognitive factors. However, it is not until quite recently, that studies on EI have considered the importance of individual differences in EI and their interaction with cognitive abilities. The general issue of this Research Topic was to expose the role of individual differences on EI in the development of a large number of competencies that support a more efficient performance in people’s everyday life. The present Research Topic provide an extensive review that may give light to the better understanding of how individual differences in EI affect human behaviour. We have considered studies that analyse: 1) how EI contributes to emotional, cognitive and social process beyond the well-known contribution of IQ and personality traits, as well as the brain system that supports the EI; 2) how EI contributes to relationships among emotions and health and well-being, 3) the roles of EI during early development and the evaluation in different populations, 4) how implicit beliefs about emotions and EI influence emotional abilities.

emotion --- Well-being --- Intelligence --- Health --- Personality --- cognitive abilities --- creativity --- Emotional Intelligence

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There are many different theories of intelligence. Although these theories differ in their nuances, nearly all agree that there are multiple cognitive abilities and that they differ in the breadth of content they are typically associated with. There is much less agreement about the relative importance of cognitive abilities of differing generality for predicting important real-world outcomes, such as educational achievement, career success, job performance, and health. Some investigators believe that narrower abilities hold little predictive power once general abilities have been accounted for. Other investigators contend that specific abilities are often as—or even more—effective in forecasting many practical variables as general abilities. These disagreements often turn on differences of theory and methodology that are both subtle and complex. The five cutting-edge contributions in this volume, both empirical and theoretical, advance the conversation in this vigorous, and highly important, scientific debate.

general cognitive ability --- second stratum abilities --- narrow abilities --- cognitive abilities --- ability tilt --- identification --- occupational attainment --- scholastic performance --- longevity --- non-g residuals --- specific abilities --- higher-order factor model --- bifactor model --- intelligence --- general intelligence (g) --- specific factors --- academic achievement --- hierarchical factor model --- educational attainment --- nested-factor models --- ability differentiation --- general abilities --- relative importance --- relative importance analysis --- bifactor(S-1) model --- subscores --- g-factor --- school grades --- non-g factors --- nested-factors model --- general mental ability --- cognitive tests --- specific cognitive abilities --- curvilinear relations --- specific ability --- situational specificity --- predictor-criterion bandwidth alignment --- job performance --- health --- machine learning --- academic performance --- general factor --- Intelligence. --- Forecasting. --- Forecasts --- Futurology --- Prediction --- Human intelligence --- Intelligence --- Mind --- Ability --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking

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"With the prevalence of computer technology and outsourcing, new jobs and fulfilling lives will rely heavily on creativity and innovation. Keith Sawyer draws from his expansive research of the creative journey, exceptional creators, creative abilities, and world-changing innovations to create an accessible, eight-step program to increasing anyone's creative potential. Sawyer reveals the surprising secrets of highly creative people (such as learning to ask better questions when faced with a problem), demonstrates how to come up with better ideas, and explains how to carry those ideas to fruition most effectively. This science-backed, step-by step method can maximize our creative potential in any sphere of life. Offers a proven method for developing new ideas and creative problem-solving no matter what your profession. Includes an eight-step method, 30 practices, and more than 100 techniques that can be launched at any point in a creative journey. Psychologist, jazz pianist, and author Keith Sawyer studied with world-famous creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Sawyer's book offers a wealth of easy to apply strategies and ideas for anyone who wants to tap into their creative power."--Publisher's website.

creativity --- thinking --- Industrial psychology --- Creativiteit --- Creative ability. --- Creative ability --- Creativity --- 7.01 --- Artistic Creativity --- Creative Ability --- Creative Thinking --- Creativeness --- Innovativeness --- Originality --- Ability, Creative --- Creative Abilities --- Creativity, Artistic --- Thinking, Creative --- Ability --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica

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With essentially the same basis as the 1971 Abilities, Their Structure, Growth and Action, this new volume reflects the developments of subsequent years.

Intellect --- Ability --- Aptitude. --- Intelligence. --- Human intelligence --- Intelligence --- Mind --- Psychology --- Mental retardation --- Thought and thinking --- Abilities --- Aptitude --- Proficiency --- Skill --- Skills --- Talent --- Talents --- Expertise --- Aptitudes --- Intellect. --- Ability. --- Systèmes, Conception de --- System design --- Systèmes, Conception de