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What's your emotional IQ?
10 situational questions covering self-awareness, empathy, and social reasoning. Get your EQ percentile.
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Your colleague's joke lands flat at a meeting and they look embarrassed. The most emotionally intelligent move is to:
Answer: Pretend you didn't notice. Sparing someone unnecessary attention to a small misstep is a high-EQ social move. Forced laughter usually highlights the awkwardness; private feedback is fine but post-hoc here would add fuel.
A friend tells you their parent has been diagnosed with a serious illness. Best response:
Answer: "That sounds incredibly hard. How are you doing right now?". Empathic acknowledgement comes first. Premature optimism, comparisons, or jumping to logistics dismiss the immediate emotional reality — even when well-intentioned.
You feel a surge of anger reading an email. The highest-EQ response is to:
Answer: Draft a sharp reply, save as draft, revisit in 1 hour. Naming and pausing is the regulation step. A delayed but considered reply almost always beats a hot one — and avoidance lets the trigger build.
Someone you barely know shares unsolicited advice. They're trying to be kind. You:
Answer: Thank them, take what's useful, ignore the rest. Receiving with grace costs nothing and preserves the relationship. The internal filter — keep what's useful — is yours; you don't owe a defence.
You catch yourself feeling envious of a peer's promotion. Healthiest first move:
Answer: Note it as data — what does it tell you you want?. Envy, examined honestly, is a precise signal about what you value. Suppression backfires; rationalisation poisons judgment; over-disclosure makes someone else manage your feelings.