Yale's Emotional Intelligence Test Will Determine If You Are A Good Leader

ShutterstockYale School of Management and other top schools are starting to consider the emotional intelligence of applicants.

Yale's test, which was created with the help of researchers at EI Skills Group, is currently being offered on a voluntary basis and won't be a factor in the school's highly selective application process, but it's uncertain what Yale will do with the results in the future.

The idea is that leadership requires an ability to read people, accurately understand and manage emotions, communicate effectively, and adapt quickly to other cultures.

To get the 141 questions on Yale's Mayer, Salovey, Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, we reached out to David Caruso, special assistant to the Dean at Yale College, who's been working with other researchers on the emotional ability assessment for the past 15 years.

"One key is that when you ask people how emotionally intelligent they think they are that their answers often bear little relation to their actual ability," Caruso tells us. "This makes a lot of sense ... someone may think they can read people really well, but if you cannot read signals you don’t get feedback that your ability to read others is faulty."

Scoring the test-takers is another complicated task, as it's hard to say what the right answer is on every question.

The following questions were provided to us by Caruso and are structured in a similar fashion to Yale's emotional assessment, though they do not actually appear on the MSCEIT. Answers will be provided soon ...