Psychologists Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Norman Li of Singapore Management Universities have noticed two massive trends when it comes to people’s IQ levels and social interactions.
The study, published in the British Journal of Psychology looked into the data of of 15,000 adults aged 18 to 28 and they discovered that people with higher IQ’s are less satisfied the more time they spend with friends.
‘The effect of population density on life satisfaction was therefore more than twice as large for low-IQ individuals than for high-IQ individuals. And more intelligent individuals were actually less satisfied with life if they socialized with their friends more frequently.’
With most people, our main association with life satisfaction comes from socialising with friends, going to the pub, hanging out in the park in summer with bottles of prosecco, am I right? I know for a fact if I spend the weekend alone I'd start the new week feeling pretty down and moody. Well, for more intelligent individuals this theory is flipped, they actually experience lower life satisfaction if they frequently socialise with friends.
Which makes sense, perhaps if you’re more focused on a higher goal or objective in your career you would prefer to spend time focusing on this than in large social situations? That’s not to say that overly intelligent people can’t or won’t enjoy socialising – they just maybe prefer to have more time to themselves to focus their thoughts.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.