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A London School of Economics study of 15,000 adults found that more intelligent people were actually less satisfied with life when they socialised with friends more often — the opposite of what was true for everyone else

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A London School of Economics study of 15,000 adults found that more intelligent people were actually less satisfied with life when they socialised with friends more often — the opposite of what was true for everyone else
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A much-repeated psychology finding appears to turn ordinary advice about friendship upside down. In a large US dataset, frequent contact with friends was positively associated with life satisfaction for most young adults, but the slope reversed among people with higher verbal-intelligence scores.
This is one study, not settled consensus. The result was small, correlational and based on data collected in 2001–02 from people aged 18–28. It does not show that intelligent people dislike friends, nee

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