Reply #36: Usually "lack of affect" there.

[patrice]

Though that may not be the same thing being able to read others' emotions accurately.

It wouldn't surprise me if there were some high EQ in what is refered to as a "Borderline" personality disorder, characterized by lots of manipulation of those around you.

Also, on the subject of "flip - flopping", it is a common characteristic of a variety of personality disorders that the disordered person is inflexible and unyeilding.

You can look this stuff up in the DSM IV (or V . . .?). That's the Diagnostics and Statistics Manual which can be found at any good university library, especially schools with medical schools attached to them.