As we grow older, being intelligent does not merely mean getting a high score or promoted at the office—even though this element plays as one of the determinants. Take a look at the list below and check your own!
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It’s Hard for You to Remain Calm during a Crisis
It may sound strange but based on the findings gathered by Tsachi Ein-Dor and Organ Tal from School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel, intelligent people tend to analyze and create scenarios in their heads and often get panicked and ruminate when reality does not go their ways. However, this habit can contribute to better anticipation since intelligent people are more prepared for the worst-case scenario.
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You are the Joker
Intelligent people are mostly the funny ones in a group. A study by Gil Greengoss and Geoffrey Miller proves that the sense of humour is a hard-to-fake signal of intelligence and it takes a high level of verbal intelligence to choose the right words to create a joke.
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A Night Owl is More Intelligent than an Early Bird
You find it difficult to concentrate in a noisy environment not because you are not as intelligent as you get distracted easily. It means you can focus on more than one thing at a time. Thus, night time is the perfect moment for you to stay focused.
A phycologist from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Satoshi Kanazawa found that sleeping patterns and IQ attainment are intimately connected. Based on his study titled “The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis”, intelligent children tend to grow up as nocturnal adults.
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You’re Messy
Don’t you know that Einstein was famously-messy? According to a finding conducted by Kathleen Vohs and the team from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, intelligent individuals perceive their messiness as the fuel for their creativity. Vohs argues that tidy environment depicts conventionalism and play it safe. So, next time someone scolds you for being messy, tell them you need it as your creativity fuel!
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Intelligent Individuals are More Likely to Swear
Easy for us to admit that cursing is such a natural pain relief, but t was previously believed that those who swear a lot indicate a sign of limited vocabulary or a lower intelligence status. Nevertheless, a study by Kristin Jay and Timothy Jay that was published in the Language Sciences journal in 2015, found that swearing capability was a symptom of rhetorical strength. Intelligent individuals tend to use the right words to express their feelings since they have an extensive vocabulary and tend to have more answers to a non-swearing department too. Meaning that fluency level in swearing words represents an overall fluency.