Emotional Intelligence:
Philosopher’s Stone for Success or Eclectic Traits?
Abstract
This papers looks into the history of intelligence and its value in psychology. It discusses in detail what is intelligence and historical perspective of it, later examines the various forms of intelligence and the contemporary view upon emotional intelligence. The paper goes in depth to study the science behind emotional intelligence and the various models and frameworks proposed by different researchers. Finally the paper aims at finding whether emotional intelligence is a real phenomenon that can be acquired or is it innate. The law of hard wiring and the branches of emotional intelligence were also the subject of discussion. Finally a conclusion was drawn on the subject of discussion whether Emotional Intelligence is the Philosophers stone or just another name for eclectic traits.

Introduction
Emotional Intelligence is a flourishing concept in psychology; psychologists have associated it with various branches of psychology including Cognitive Psychology, Positive Psychology and Social Psychology. Inquisitiveness and curiosity in Emotional Intelligence can be evaluated by the magnitude of delve it has enthused since surfacing in the psychological literature with John Mayer and Peter Salovey’s research in Journal of Personality Assessment about 20 years ago. Intelligence is a widespread word these days, there are abundant researches and scores of books written on the subject focusing upon various forms of intelligence but from psychology’s perspective the concept of intelligence is still new and evolving. The word “Intelligence” did not come into analysis or scrutiny in psychology books or researches in the twentieth century; it was also not cited in Baldwin’s classic, Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology which was published in 1902. Until 1927 when renowned