Eastern European Perspectives on Emotional Intelligence: Current Developments and Research

Lada Kaliská is an associate professor of educational, school and counseling psychology at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. She has interests in factors of student performance and behavior at school and has participated in research on learning styles as well as moral, social and successful intelligences with R.J. Sternberg. Dr. Kaliska has been involved in research projects on trait EI in Slovakia and was a principal investigator of a project (VEGA 1/0654/17) on the emotional intelligence construct. She works also as a part-time school psychologist at a high school where she implements research into real world settings.

John Pellitteri is an associate professor in school and mental health counseling at Queens College and is the president and co-founder of the International Society for Emotional Intelligence (ISEI). His research focuses on EI as it relates to adaptive personality, education, counseling and creative arts. He is co-editor of the book, ＂Emotionally Intelligent School Counseling＂ (2006) and author of ＂Emotional Processes in Music Therapy＂ (2009). He has presented internationally on EI, is a certified MSCEIT trainer, and is a practicing psychotherapist in New York.