Estudo liga infidelidade masculina a QI mais baixo

Oglobo.com: "Homens que traem as esposas e namoradas tendem a ter QI mais baixo e ser menos inteligentes, segundo um estudo publicado na revista especializada Social Psychology Quarterly.

De acordo com o autor do estudo, o especialista em psicologia evolutiva da London School of Economics, Satoshi Kanazawa, "homens inteligentes estão mais propensos a valorizar a exclusividade sexual do que homens menos inteligentes".

Kanazawa analisou duas grandes pesquisas americanas a National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health e a General Social Surveys, que mediam atitudes sociais e QI de milhares de adolescentes e adultos. Ao cruzar os dados das duas pesquisas, o autor concluiu que as pessoas que acreditam na importância da fidelidade sexual para uma relação demonstraram QI mais alto.

De acordo com o estudo, o ateísmo e o liberalismo político também são características de homens mais inteligentes.

Evolução
Kanazawa foi mais longe e disse que outra conclusão do estudo é que o comportamento "fiel" do homem mais inteligente seria um sinal da evolução da espécie. Sua teoria é baseada no conceito de que, ao longo da história evolucionária, os homens sempre foram "relativamente polígamos", e que isso está mudando.

Para Kanazawa, assumir uma relação de exclusividade sexual teria se tornado então uma "novidade evolucionária" e pessoas mais inteligentes estariam mais inclinadas a adotar novas práticas em termos evolucionários - ou seja, a se tornar "mais evoluídas".

Para o autor, isso se deve ao fato de pessoas mais inteligentes serem mais "abertas" a novas ideias e questionarem mais os dogmas. "

Intelligente Männer gehen weniger fremd

20min.ch: "Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, Evolu­tionspsychologe an der Londoner School of Economics and Political Science behauptet: «Es gibt einen Zusammenhang zwischen Intelligenz und Treue.» Männer, die das Fremdgehen nicht lassen können, hätten einen niedrigeren IQ als treue Partner.

Kanazawas These basiert auf der Annahme, dass Männer «in der Evolutionsgeschichte immer einen leichten Hang zur Polygamie gehabt haben». Heutzutage seien wir im Evolutionsstadium sexuell exklusiver Beziehungen angelangt. Monogamie – eine «evolutionäre Neuerung» für Männer. Demnach sind schlaue Männer eher in der Lage, sich der Evolution anzupassen. Kanazawa ist sich sicher: «Intelligente Männer schätzen eher sexuelle Exklusivität und Monogamie als weniger intelligente Männer.»

Diese Erkenntnisse gelten gemäss dem Forscher übrigens nicht für Frauen. Schliesslich sei von ihnen immer Treue erwartet worden.".

Les hommes intelligents sont plus fidèles

Canoe.com: "Les hommes au quotient intellectuel plus élevé auraient moins tendance à tromper leur partenaire. Selon une étude rapportée par le journal britannique Daily Telegraph, les hommes intelligents sont moins susceptibles de tromper leur partenaire que ceux ayant un quotient intellectuel inférieur. Ces derniers auraient moins tendance à être monogames".

C’est Satoshi Kanazawa du London School of Economics and Political Science qui a réalisé cette étude britannique.

Selon lui, dans la préhistoire, les hommes étaient rarement monogames. Dans la société actuelle, où les conquêtes sont à portée de main, seuls les hommes intelligents adhèrent à la valeur de fidélité et d’exclusivité sexuelle.

Par contre, pour certains scientifiques, cette étude est grandement discutable. Selon eux, plusieurs facteurs jouent un rôle dans la fidélité et ils n’ont rien à voir avec l’intelligence. La question serait beaucoup plus complexe.

Ils citent même en exemple plusieurs grands hommes qui ont pourtant trompé leur femme, comme les Kennedy par exemple. Ces hommes étaient pourtant dotés d’une grande intelligence, mais ont succombé malgré tout à la tentation, qui de nos jours, est de plus en plus grande.

Are liberals and atheists smarter? Satoshi Kanazawa

According to the Star, in new research bound to irk conservative geniuses, people with high IQs are deemed more likely to be liberal, monogamous non-believers than those who are less intelligent. In an article for Social Psychology Quarterly, Kanazawa lays out facts based on U.S. data to support his theory. According to that research, young adults who identify as "not at all religious" had an average IQ of 103 as teens, while those who identified as "very religious" had an average IQ of 97. Similarly, young adults who called themselves "very liberal" had an average IQ of 106 during adolescence, while those who identified themselves as "very conservative" had average IQs of 95.

Kanazawa believes there are evolutionary reasons behind this. Ten thousand years ago, when humans were hunter-gatherers, we mated, tended to our kin and fled when danger was in the air – activities that did not require much intelligence. Kanazawa says humans were thus biologically designed to be conservative and put a high value on family.

The U.S. data also show a relationship between male adolescent intelligence and how much, as adults, they came to value sexual exclusivity. The more intelligent the male respondents were, the more they believed in monogamy.

Kanazawa says future research will explore whether intelligent people are more likely to buy into other evolutionarily novel values, like vegetarianism, feminism, pacifism and environmentalism. Meanwhile, he expects the average intelligence of all western populations to decline slightly in the 21st century, because more intelligent people tend to have fewer offspring. Interestingly, Kanazawa describes himself as a married atheist libertarian with a strong distaste for liberals. But, as a scientist, he says he is bound to report the facts.

FoxNews gives a slightly different opinion on the matter: "Satoshi's really suggesting that smart people are more likely to take risks and experiment. This makes sense, but only temporarily.

It just so happens that I was once an outspoken liberal, a normal state for an attention-seeking teenager with back acne. But, after awhile, I started rejecting the easy romance of leftism, as hard reality started hitting me in the face. So, while it takes brains to question the natural state of things, you need even more brains to later question the questioning. Smart people question their parents, but then smarter people realize later that their parents were right all along.

Bottom line: Braininess isn't reflected in rebellion against common sense. Instead, it's rebellion against rebellion that shows real smarts — that and an acceptance that unicorns rule and griffins suck."