Assess a graduate student's ability to apply emotional intelligence frameworks (e.g., Goleman, Mayer-Salovey) to diagnose and resolve interpersonal conflicts in academic research teams; students must recognize emotional cues, analyze self- and social-awareness gaps, map conflict triggers (authorship, resources, power), design evidence-based interventions (communication strategies, emotion regulation, mediation steps, role negotiation), and justify choices with EI principles and team-dynamics considerations, including cultural and hierarchical factors.