Emotional-Detecting Ability

A very different type of intelligence is the ability to detect other people's emotions. There are some people who can pick up on a persons cues and know right away that their is something wrong. Some people are more sensitive to this type of ability while others wouldn't notice at all. Typically women are better at detecting these types of things then men probably because of their motherly instincts.
The way that researchers have studies people to find their emotional detection abilities is through an experiment. They show them a couple second clip and replace the original words with distorted ones. The person is asked whether the person in the clip was lecturing someone or talking about their deceased grandparents. The answers vary from person to person.
I think this is an important ability to have because you have to be sensitive toward a persons emotion if you are trying to make any type of relationship work. If you can't even tell if something is wrong then the person will feel unnoticed and rejected. I feel like everyone has a little ability to be able to detect how a person is feeling if they try. It is all about paying attention and keeping an open relationship with a person.