18 Quotes by Peter Salovey

We might meet with some leaders of student organizations such as fraternities and ask them from their point of view to describe the way people drink at the fraternity parties, to describe the kind of social climate at those parties,

Operationally the admissions process is very well run by very well-regarded people, ... That lets us think a little outside the box in terms of the kind of person who we can bring in to provide a vision for Yale College admissions, to provide organizational leadership for the office, and to be the face of Yale to high school students, teachers and guidance counselors all over the world.

It's the perfect sort of town-gown program, ... It lets students at different levels take advantage of our faculty scholarship in the area of urban education, but then the program also helps to produce skilled teachers for the New Haven public schools.

These are critically important issues that need to be brought to our attention, ... We want to be informed by thoughtful students, who have studied these issues in-depth, about what programs work and what needs to be improved.

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.

We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

I think in the coming decade we will see well-conducted research demonstrating that emotional skills and competencies predict positive outcomes at home with one's family, in school, and at work. The real challenge is to show that emotional intelligence matters over-and-above psychological constructs that have been measured for decades like personality and IQ. I believe that emotional intelligence holds this promise.

At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.