People for whom rationality is an applause light or a club with which to bash enemies, but who balk at actually applying it to themselves. People who have been taught that rationality is evil.

I don't really see the point. On the first page of Discussion there currently "On Straw Vulcan Rationality" with is about the relation of rationality to emotions which has a lot to do with emotional intelligence. There also "Applying reinforcement learning theory to reduce felt temporal distance", "Beware Trivial Fears", "How can I spend money to improve my life?" and "How to become a PC?". I think "On Straw Vulcan Rationality" illustrates the issue well. Here on Lesswrong there are people who actually think that Vulcans do things quite alright. In an environment where it's not clear that one shouldn't be a Vulcan it's difficult to communicate about some aspects of emotional intelligence. Recently asked for ways to find a career for himself but it it all in the third person instead of the first. My post suggesting that he should change to first person was voted down because it was to far out of LW culture. If I'm around people who do a lot of coaching changing someone who speaks in third person about his own life to first person to increase his agentship is straightforward advice. It's a basic. I had experience where encouraging a person to make that change produced bodylanguage changes that are visible to me because the person is more associated with themselves. On the other hand I'm hardpressed if you ask me for peer reviewed research to back up my claim that it's highly useful to use the first person when speaking about what one wants to do with his life. Not being able to rely on basics makes it hard to talk when on Lesswrong we usually do talk about advanced stuff.