Reuven Bar-On, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Reuven Bar-On

Date of Birth: 15-May-1944

Place of Birth: San Diego, California, United States

Profession: psychologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Reuven Bar-On is an Israeli psychologist and one of the leading pioneers, theorists and researchers in emotional intelligence.
Bar-On is thought to be the first to introduce the concept of an “EQ” (“Emotional Quotient”) to measure “emotional and social competence”, although the acronym was used earlier to describe ideas that were not associated with emotional intelligence per se.
In the first copy of his doctoral dissertation, which was submitted in 1985, Bar-On proposed a quantitative approach to creating “an EQ analogous to an IQ score.”