David R. Caruso

The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso strand of Emotional Intelligence is an ability-based model of EI, and this book is by two of the developers. It uses a something of a "thinking about" apporach to emotions, but not nearly as much as in the Learned Optimism, The Optimistic Child, and The Resilience Factor books. Working directly with emotions is a challenge, but it offers some unique insights. I am not sure how this book would have made sense to me without my Positive Psychology background.