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Emotional intelligence "is a type of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one's thinking and actions" (Mayer & Salovey, 1993: 433).

In other words EI is about being emotionally sensitive to other's emotions in any media, a live program or life in general.

This is about respect to the audience by the creator or the originator of the emotional stream. EI goes far beyond just one emotional element.

EI is about sensitivity to emotions that has happened in the past, and your imagination for the forth-coming emotions in a continuous stream; this is about past, present and future, all happening within an emotional frame of mind.

Emotions in any stream are related and cohesive, otherwise they lose credibility.