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Smart citizens are happier when they are alone.

06.04.2016

It is often said that nothing can replace live communication, and in order to feel truly happy, you need to communicate more with friends. Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Norman P. Li of the Singapore Management University disagree: Their findings suggest that happiness does not require a rich social life. True, there is one "but" here: "non-social" happiness is possible only for people with high IQ.

Kanazawa and Li analyzed data from a massive survey of 15 young people aged 000 to 18. Comparing information about the socioeconomic status of the respondents, their intellectual level and social connections, the researchers concluded that a person with an IQ below the average in a modern populous city does not feel psychologically very well than if he lived somewhere outside the city. However, close friends can still help him become happy in a big city if he often communicates with them. For those with above-average IQs, the picture was reversed: they felt more comfortable in the city, and if they did not communicate with others too often.

Explaining their results, the authors of the work turned to ancient times. According to them, the whole point here is that our ancestors, who lived in the African savannas, saw not very many people around them day after day - members of their tribe, and such an environment has become familiar and comfortable for hundreds of years. Getting into a big city, the brain, according to the old - very old - memory, tries to break all this mass of people around into small communities with which it is clear how to communicate. An old, Paleolithic habit makes us feel stressed in an unfamiliar social situation, so we try to "make it the way it used to be."

High IQ, according to Lee and Kanazawa, makes us adequate to the current situation: we see around us not the "urban jungle", that is, the savannah, but precisely that the city in which the chance to survive does not necessarily depend on how often you communicate with your " tribe." In this case, rich communication, on the contrary, can plunge you into depression, because it will take time away from some other activities related to your career, hobbies, etc.

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