Principles of Kabir Wealth Curve

Comment: The authors' prior study reported the crossover effect of intelligence quotient and emotional awareness on national average income. A very high level of emotional awareness (EA) indicates one can learn from expressed emotions quickly, which helps to solve problems in life by understanding emotions, such as being able to regulate one's emotions and cheer others up when they are feeling low. This emotional awareness (EA) is an essential part of emotional intelligence (EI). The other part of emotional intelligence (EI) is to manage one's emotions to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathically, which was not incorporated in this study. The measuring emotional intelligence scores have unknown psychometric properties (i.e., validity and reliability) and are not well integrated with extant emotional intelligence research. The question remains whether intelligence quotient and emotional awareness will predict a group of individual's income or wealth rank.