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Dr Marc Brackett

Disciplines:
psychology
research
psychology/emotional intelligence

Summary

American psychologist and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence — whose Permission to Feel presents the RULER framework for emotional intelligence education — and who has been an influential voice in bringing emotional literacy into schools.

Core Contribution

Developed the RULER framework — Recognizing, Understanding, Labeling, Expressing, Regulating emotions — and implemented it across thousands of schools, producing the most systematic and evidence-based emotional intelligence curriculum in education.

Notable Works & Achievements

Permission to Feel

Historical Influences

Peter Salovey John Mayer

Intellectual Lineage

Emotional Intelligence ResearchYale PsychologyEducation Reform

Contemporaries & Peers

Daniel Goleman Susan DavidBrené Brown

Minds Influenced

School emotional intelligence curriculaCorporate EI trainingMW emotional intelligence content

Intellectual Posterity

RULER frameworkPermission to Feel Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

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