Papers - NOZAKI Yuki
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The Relationship between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Interaction with Ostracized Others' Retaliation Reviewed
Yuki Nozaki, Masuo Koyasu
PLOS ONE 8 ( 10 ) e77579 2013.10
Joint Work
Authorship：Lead author Publisher：PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
Background: Regulation of emotions in others is distinct from other activities related to trait emotional intelligence in that only such behavior can directly change other people's psychological states. Although emotional intelligence has generally been associated with prosociality, emotionally intelligent people may manipulate others' behaviors to suit their own interests using high-level capabilities to read and manage the emotions of others. This study investigated how trait emotional intelligence was related to interacting with ostracized others who attempt retaliation.
Method: We experimentally manipulated whether two people were simultaneously ostracized or not by using an online ball-tossing game called Cyberball. Eighty university students participated in Cyberball for manipulating ostracism and a "recommendation game," a variation of the ultimatum game for assessing how to interact with others who attempt retaliation, with four participants. After the recommendation game, participants rated their intention to retaliate during the game.
Results: People with higher interpersonal emotional intelligence were more likely to recommend that the ostracized other should inhibit retaliation and maximize additional rewards when they have a weaker intention to retaliate. However, they were more likely to recommend that the ostracized other should retaliate against the ostracizers when they have a stronger intention to retaliate.
Conclusion: This is the first laboratory study that empirically reveals that people with high interpersonal emotional intelligence influence others' emotions based on their own goals contrary to the general view. Trait emotional intelligence itself is neither positive nor negative, but it can facilitate interpersonal behaviors for achieving goals. Our study offers valuable contributions for the refinement of the trait emotional intelligence concept in the respect of its social function. -
Effects of emotional intelligence on inhibiting retaliation for ostracism in Cyberball Reviewed
Yuki Nozaki, Masuo Koyasu
Psychologia 56 ( 3 ) 167 - 178 2013.9
Joint Work
Authorship：Lead author Publisher：PSYCHOLOGIA SOC
Emotional intelligence plays an important role in coordinating social interaction. This study investigated the effects of emotional intelligence on inhibiting retaliation for ostracism. Seventy-six university students (44 men and 32 women) played an online ball-tossing game called Cyberball (Williams, Cheung, & Choi, 2000) with three other players. In the first session, each participant and another player were either ostracized or included by the other two players. In the second session, the participant had to decide whether to ostracize the other two players, who were the ostracism offenders in the ostracism condition, by throwing back the ball to the other player or not. The results show that those who have high regulation of emotions in the self, one of the subscales of emotional intelligence, better inhibited retaliation for ostracism. This finding suggests that regulation of emotions in the self can function as an inhibitor of inappropriate emotional behaviors in interpersonal situations.
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Effects of cognitive appraisals and coping on the development of emotional intelligence during preparation for a university entrance examination Reviewed
Nozaki, Y, Koyasu, M
Japanese Journal of Personality 21 ( 3 ) 231 - 243 2013.3
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The effects of resilience and posttraumatic growth on emotional intelligence on the basis of a distinction between self and others domains Reviewed
Nozaki, Y
Japanese Journal of Personality 20 ( 3 ) 179 - 192 2012.3