It's a huge straw man to suggest that people believe emotional intelligence amounts to a mechanistic reading of facial expressions and body language. Emotional

It's a huge straw man to suggest that people believe emotional intelligence amounts to a mechanistic reading of facial expressions and body language. Emotional intelligence is just as much about understanding how people will react to things even when they're not in the room at all. Reading signals is just the tip of the iceberg, does anyone really think it's that simple?