1 The Interface of Emotion and Social Competence Angela Sokyee Low and Shelley Hymel University of British Columbia In press. Article to appear in the Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development, expected late 2019. Biographical Sketches of Authors Angela Sokyee Low (M.A., University of British Columbia, 2015) is a doctoral candidate in Human Development, Learning, and Culture at the University of British Columbia. Her research explores the role of emotional intelligence in the well-being and social functioning of children and parents. She is a Canadian network leader for Six Seconds, a global organization that promotes research and program development on Emotional Intelligence, and manages an online social-emotional learning resource for educators (www.selresources.com). Angela regularly consults with community organizations that promote parent and child well-being, and develops programs that foster social and emotional competence in parents, family support workers and children. Shelley Hymel (Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1982) holds the Edith Lando Professorship in Social- Emotional Learning (SEL) in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. She is on executive team of PREVNet (www.prevnet.ca), Canada’s national organization for “Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence” and co-founder of the Bullying Research Network (http://brnet.unl.edu/), linking researchers from 17 countries. She oversees a Masters concentration in SEL and has created a unique online resource for educators, the SEL Resource Finder (www.selresources.com). She publishes extensively on social development, peer relations, SEL, and bullying, co-editing a 2015 special issue on bullying for the American Psychologist. Recommended Additional Readings Bierman, K.L., Greenberg, M.T., Coie, J.D., Dodge, K.A., Lochman, J.E., & McMahon, R.J. (2017). Social and emotional skills training for children. New York: Guilford Press. Chen, X. & Rubin, K.H. (2011). Socioemotional development in cultural context. New York: Guilford Press. Lieberman, M.D. (2013). Social: Why our brains are wired to connect. New York: Crown Publishers. Rose-Krasnor, L. (1997). The nature of social competence: A theoretical review. Social Development, 6(1), 111-135. Saarni, C. (1999). The development of emotional competence. New York: Guilford.