Brainiac or Just Another Introvert? Psychologists Find That Intelligent People Are Happier When They Socialize Less
It’s Saturday night, most of your friends are heading out to the coolest restaurants and bars in town to have some fun. Meanwhile, you are alone at home, in a cozy outfit and finishing up the latest project that you have been working on for the past few weeks. You start to wonder if you were born to be a loner, even though you do enjoy every single moment spent with your friends. But every time if you have to make a choice between work and socializing, you would go for the former one. Achieving a goal or completing a task always triggers an unmatched sense of fulfillment and excitement in you. So, is something wrong with you? Psychologists do not think so. Psychologists believe such mentality could be a sign of high intelligence. In February, Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics, together with Norman Li of Singapore Management University, published a research in the British Journal of Psychology , suggesting that, More intelligent individuals experience lower life