Assess Your Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence (EI) is the capability of individuals to recognize their own emotions and those of others, discern between different feelings and label them appropriately, use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, and manage and/or adjust emotions to adapt to environments or achieve one's goal(s). This test is based on the 33-item scale taken from the paper by Schutte and colleagues (1998). It should take at most a couple of minutes to complete.