Pilots tend to have lower emotional intelligence scores than the rest of the population and researchers are looking at what that means for training and culture at aircraft operations. "Overall, the findings show that pilots tend to have lower trait EI scores, indicating less confidence and reliance on their emotional world, with all the advantages and disadvantages this might entail, since high scores are not considered universally adaptive and desirable in trait EI theory," researchers wrote in the study, which was reported in Nature. The pilots and twice as many non-pilots were given standard tests to measure their emotional intelligence and scored a lot lower on three of four parameters: well-being, emotionality and sociability. Pilots and the others scored similarly on self-control.
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