Marc Brackett

Marc A. Brackett, Ph.D., is the Founding

Director of the Yale Center for Emotional
Intelligence and Professor in the Child
Study Center at Yale University.
 Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
Alma mater University of New
Hampshire

Known for Social emotional

learning, Emotional
intelligence, RULER,
the Mood Meter,
Emotional Literacy
Blueprint, Meta-
Moment, Emotional
Intelligence Charter

Scientific career

Fields Psychology

Institutions Yale University Yale

Center for Emotional
Intelligence

Doctoral advisor John D. Mayer

Biography
Brackett earned his Ph.D. in psychology
from the University of New Hampshire in
2003, where he was supervised by
emotional intelligence scholar John D.
Mayer.[1] He was a postdoctoral fellow at
Yale University with Mayer's collaborator,
Peter Salovey.

Academic career
Brackett's research focuses on the role of
emotional intelligence in learning,
decision making, relationship quality, and
mental health; the measurement of
emotional intelligence, best practices for
bringing emotional intelligence into large
organizations, and the influences of
emotional intelligence training on student
and educator effectiveness, bullying
prevention, and school climate.[2]

He is the author, co-author, and editor of

over 100 scholarly publications and the
developer of two university courses on
Emotional Intelligence—one for
undergraduates at Yale University and
one for educators at Teachers College,
Columbia University (co-developed with
Robin Stern).

RULER
Brackett is the lead developer of RULER,
an evidence-based, CASEL (Collaborative
for Academic, Social, and Emotional
Learning) SELect approach to social and
emotional learning. The acronym RULER
refers to the five key emotion skills of
Recognizing, Understanding, Labeling,
Expressing, and Regulating emotions.
RULER intends to increase personal
wellbeing, effective teaching and
leadership, academic achievement, and
classroom emotional climate change.[3][4]
An essential aspect of RULER is that it
involves training for educational leaders,
teachers, support staff, students and
families. To date, RULER has been
adopted by 1200 schools across the
globe, reaching over 1,000,000
students.[2]

Publications
The RULER Approach to Social
and Emotional Learning

Brackett, M. A., & Kremenitzer, J. P.,

with Maurer, M., Carpenter, M., Rivers,
S. E., & Elbertson, N. (Eds.). (2011).
Creating emotionally literate
classrooms: An introduction to The
RULER Approach to Social and
Emotional Learning. Portchester, New
York: National Professional Resources.
Brackett, M. A., Rivers, S. E., Reyes, M.
R., & Salovey, P. (in press). Enhancing
academic performance and social and
emotional competence with the RULER
Feeling Words Curriculum. Learning
and Individual Differences.
Rivers, S. E., Brackett, M. A., Reyes, M.
R., & Salovey, P. (in press). Improving
the social and emotional climate of
classrooms: A clustered randomized
controlled trial testing The RULER
Approach. Prevention Science.
Reyes, M. R., Brackett, M. A., Rivers, S.
E., Elbertson, N., & Salovey, P. (in
press). The interaction effects of
program training, dosage, and
implementation quality on targeted
student outcomes for The RULER
Approach to social and emotional
learning, School Psychology Review.
Elbertson, N., Brackett, M. A., &
Weissberg, R. (in press). School-based
social and emotional learning (SEL)
Programming: Current perspectives. In
A. Hargreaves, M. Fullan, D. Hopkins, &
A. Lieberman (Eds.). The second
international handbook of educational
change. New York: Springer.
Brackett, M. A., Patti, J., Stern, R.,
Rivers, S. E., Elbertson, N., Chisholm,
C., & Salovey, P. (2009). A sustainable,
skill-based model to building
emotionally literate schools. In R.
Thompson, M. Hughes, & J. B. Terrell
 (Eds.), Handbook of developing
emotional and social intelligence: Best
practices, case studies, and tools
(pp. 329–358). New York: John Wiley &
Sons, Inc.
Rivers, S. E., & Brackett, M. A. (2011).
Achieving standards in the English
language arts (and more) using The
RULER Approach to Social and
Emotional Learning. Reading and
Writing Quarterly, 27, 75-100.

Classroom climate

Brackett, M. A., Reyes, M. R., Rivers, S.

E., Elbertson, N. E., & Salovey, P. (2011).
Classroom Emotional Climate, Teacher
Affiliation, and Student Conduct.
 Journal of Classroom Interactions, 46,
27-46.
Reyes, M. R., Brackett, M. A., Rivers, S.
E., White, M., Mashburn, A. J., &
Salovey, P. (in press). Classroom
emotional climate, student
engagement, and academic
achievement, Journal of Educational
Psychology.

Emotional intelligence and its

applications

Brackett, M. A., Rivers, S. E., & Salovey,

P. (2011). Emotional intelligence:
Personal, Social, Educational, and
Workplace Implications. Social and
Personality Psychology Compass, 5,
88-103.
Brackett, M. A., Palomera, R., Mojsa, J.,
Reyes, M., & Salovey, P. (2010).
Emotion regulation ability, job
satisfaction, and burnout among
British secondary school teachers.
Psychology in the Schools, 47, 406-
417.
Rivers, S. E., Brackett, M. A., Cook, M.,
Omori, M., Sickler, C., & Salovey, P. (in
press). Emotion skills as a protective
factor for risky behaviors among
college students. Journal of College
Student Development.
 Brackett, M. A., Rivers, S., Shiffman, S.,
Lerner, N., & Salovey, P. (2006). Relating
emotional abilities to social
functioning: A comparison of
performance and self-report measures
of emotional intelligence. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 91,
780-795.
Brackett, M. A., & Mayer, J. D. (2003).
Convergent, discriminant, and
incremental validity of competing
measures of emotional intelligence.
Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin, 29, 1147-1158.

Assessment
Brackett, M. A., Reyes, M. R., Rivers, S.
E., Elbertson, N., & Salovey, P. (in
press). Assessing teachers’ beliefs
about social and emotional learning.
Journal of Psychoeducational
Assessment.
Brackett, M. A., & Geher, G. (2006).
Measuring emotional intelligence:
Paradigmatic shifts and common
ground. In J. Ciarrochi, J. P. Forgas & J.
D. Mayer (Eds.), Emotional intelligence
and everyday life (2nd ed.) (pp. 27–
50). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
Brackett, M. A., & Salovey, P. (2004).
Measuring emotional intelligence as a
mental ability with the Mayer-Salovey-
 Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test. In
G. Geher (Ed.), Measurement of
Emotional Intelligence (pp. 179–194).
Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science
Publishers.

Recognition
Much of this research is being extended
to different cultures, including England,
Spain, Italy, Australia, and China.[5] In
2011, his work on Social emotional
learning (SEL) earned him the Joseph E.
Zins Award. He received the 2004/2007
award for Excellence in Research,
MENSA Education and Research
Foundation.
He serves on numerous Research
Advisory Boards, including the
Collaborative for Academic, Social and
Emotional Learning (CASEL), Lady Gaga's
Born This Way Foundation, and the
Greater Good Science Center.[5]

Currently, he is a consultant to Facebook

on a large-scale research project
designed to both prevent and decrease
online bullying[6].

References
1. Tordesillas, Cesar E. (11 December
2005). "The Traveling Ambassador of
Emotional Intelligence" . Manila Times.
Retrieved 6 December 2015.
2. "The Ruler Approach" . Retrieved
12 January 2013.
3. Susan E. Rivers & Marc A. Brackett,
"Achieving Standards in the English
Language Arts (and More) Using The
RULER Approach to Social and Emotional
Learning" Reading & Writing Quarterly
Volume 27, Issue 1-2, 2010, Special Issue:
"Emotions Matter: How Social–Emotional
Learning (SEL) Helps Struggling Readers
and Writers," p.75-100 open access
version "This article introduces RULER
(‘‘RULER’’) to social and emotional
learning, with a particular focus on its
Feeling Words Curriculum."--abstract
4. Marc A. Brackett, , Susan E. Rivers,
Maria R. Reyes, Peter Salovey "Enhancing
academic performance and social and
emotional competence with the RULER
feeling words curriculum" Learning and
Individual Differences Volume 22, Issue 2,
April 2012, Pages 218–224 open access
version Archived 2013-06-02 at the
Wayback Machine.
5. "Ruler approach extended to different
cultures" . Archived from the original on
15 April 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
6. "Introducing the Facebook Bullying
Prevention Hub - Yale Center for
Emotional Intelligence" . Yale Center for
Emotional Intelligence. 2013-11-07.
Retrieved 2018-01-31.

External links
Profile — Yale Center for Emotional
Intelligence

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