Intelligence may be correlated with emotional intelligence, or "EQ," according to a 2013 study published in the journal Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience.
"Intelligence, to a large extent, does depend on basic cognitive abilities, like attention and perception and memory and language," Aron Barbey, a neuroscientist at the University of Illinois and coauthor of the study, told Scientific American. "But it also depends on interacting with other people," he continued.
Source: Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience
Eric Goldschein and Kim Bhasin contributed to a previous version of this story.