Professor Mark Brackett discusses a new framework for helping students manage their emotions. He explores the roles of emotional regulation and intelligence, showing how educators benefit from understanding and teaching these concepts. He explains the difference between emotions, feelings, and moods, and how personality traits influence emotional responses. The discussion also touches on the impact of AI on emotional skills, the importance of early education in developing emotional intelligence, and practical strategies for emotional regulation.

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Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. His research focuses on the role of emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance. He has published over 150 scholarly articles, received numerous awards, and is featured regularly in popular media outlets such as the New York Times, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, and The Today Show. Marc serves on a number of boards, including the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), the nonprofit that founded the field of social and emotional learning (SEL). Marc also consults regularly with corporations, including Facebook, General Electric, Google, Microsoft, and Pinterest, on integrating emotional intelligence principles into employee training and product design, and is co-founder of Oji Life Lab, a digital emotional intelligence learning system for businesses. Marc is the author of Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help our Kids, Ourselves, and our Society Thrive, published by Celadon (Macmillan), which is being translated into 15 languages. His new book is Dealing with Feeling.