They focus more on it, but in a lord-of-the-flies kind of way. You either get the cues, or you don't in which case, tough luck. It's the same in other fields,

They focus more on it, but in a lord-of-the-flies kind of way. You either get the cues, or you don't in which case, tough luck. It's the same in other fields, e.g. sports/physical ed often works that way, language and maths as well depending on the teacher. But with none of them, the failure to impart that knowledge increases the risk of murder (as seen here, even though that's an extreme case.) Edit to add: and in cases like Hans Reiser it's doubly sad because he surely was a smart kid. Sending him off into special "emotional intelligence classes" probably wouldn't have affected his intellectual skills in the slightest (or maybe even in a positive way). But while it's an aspect that most schools try to impart through osmosis, they don't detect when they fail, or even when they notice, there's little they can do about it.