Beyond the “Cool” Intelligence: Abilities to Master Internal Personality Processes

<p style="text-align: justify;">The article presents a review of theoretical approaches to the study of psychological abilities for the last 20 years. The article considers abilities related to the internal psychological activity of a personality (internal personality abilities). The concept of “cool and hot intelligences”, which has been gaining popularity in the last decades, reveals this idea in more detail. The narrative of the article focuses on a group of such psychological abilities that are primarily related to the processing of personally relevant information: emotional, social, practical, and personal intelligence. In addition, the article considers two more intrapersonal abilities, i. e. the ability to emotional regulation and the ability to intuition. The conducted theoretical analysis demonstrates that the group of psychological abilities involved in the intrapersonal activity of processing information significant for personal individual experience is qualitatively different from the group of abilities concerning general intelligence, and manifests itself as a separate taxonomic category.</p>