Peter Salovey Quotations

I don't think it is likely we are going to suggest a major overhaul in policy, ... But I do think we are going to focus on ways to help create a culture at Yale in which students can feel that they can have a good time with friends that doesn't necessarily involve heavy drinking.

He made it very clear, literally in the first five minutes he talked in admissions today, that he thinks all of this is a delicate balance and that we have that balance about right,

I think we want to present a Yale College education as accessible as possible to as broad a range of students as we can throughout the world, ... I think Jeff, through his own commitment to diversity, as well as through his own family experiences and experiences at Yale, is someone who will relate very well to all kinds of potential applicants.

I think we are very interested in seeing more students from across the income spectrum come to Yale and see Yale as accessible to them,

Our primary function is teaching and research, and there's no good reason not to do that,

Our goal is not to do something 'vocational,' nor to create anything that would be confused with a journalism major, which we have no plans to develop.

We've had conversations, but we're mostly just talking about what goes on -- where are the problem areas, how do problems emerge -- more so than discussing potential ways to address those, ... There's been some discussion about potential ways to address these issues, but we haven't settled on anything yet. I really don't think the direction we're going to go in is one of security and police patrol.

Volunteering is an act of heroism, ... I hope that you will continue to be heroes during your time at Yale.

We are making sure that these are students -- based on their past work -- who are capable of doing work in Yale College.

We might meet with some leaders of student organizations such as fraternities and ask them from their point of view to describe the way people drink at the fraternity parties, to describe the kind of social climate at those parties,

Operationally the admissions process is very well run by very well-regarded people, ... That lets us think a little outside the box in terms of the kind of person who we can bring in to provide a vision for Yale College admissions, to provide organizational leadership for the office, and to be the face of Yale to high school students, teachers and guidance counselors all over the world.

It's the perfect sort of town-gown program, ... It lets students at different levels take advantage of our faculty scholarship in the area of urban education, but then the program also helps to produce skilled teachers for the New Haven public schools.

These are critically important issues that need to be brought to our attention, ... We want to be informed by thoughtful students, who have studied these issues in-depth, about what programs work and what needs to be improved.

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.

We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

I think in the coming decade we will see well-conducted research demonstrating that emotional skills and competencies predict positive outcomes at home with one's family, in school, and at work. The real challenge is to show that emotional intelligence matters over-and-above psychological constructs that have been measured for decades like personality and IQ. I believe that emotional intelligence holds this promise.

At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.