This document discusses proposals for improving emotional intelligence (EI) assessments. It summarizes research evaluating different EI assessment methods and findings that the ability to perceive emotions from pictures may not adequately capture EI. It speculates that pictures are too artificial and people are unused to assessing emotions from static images. It concludes that a new assessment is needed for the perception branch of EI and that interventions could focus solely on emotion management rather than all branches. It proposes that future assessments control time limits and allow changing answers to feel less artificial and more dynamic.