Though the emergence of the evolutionary theory of emotional intelligence goes back to not more than a couple of decades ago, a plethora of various investigations from manifold neighboring disciplines have been targeted, to date, toward this burgeoning realm of knowledge. Yet, as a brief glance through the not-so-long-lasting history of EQ-oriented investigations reveals, the whole body of research in the area falls within either descriptive or exploratory planes as far as the implications of such a construct are concerned. What seems to have received quite scant attention among the surfeit...

Soon after its emergence in the early 90s, emotional intelligence turned to a focal area of interest for a tremendous number of researchers from several neighboring disciplines. A fleeting look through the partially neglected domains falling within the scope of EQ-oriented probes might help divulge the alleged dearth of studies on the ostensible linkages between emotional intelligence and the learners general thought processes. To help bridge the seeming gap in this regard, the current study strived to investigate the liable go-togetherness between the subcomponents of Bar-Ons EQ-i and three...