If you or your loved ones regularly feel this need, it is, according to psychologists, a sign of high intelligence.
The most intelligent people share certain traits and habits. Curiosity and a desire to learn, empathy and a great ability to listen are, for example, qualities found in many individuals with higher IQs. Furthermore, psychologists have discovered, after much research, that if you feel a very particular need very frequently, it is very possible that you are part of this small group of geniuses.
A scientific analysis of intelligence
There are many forms of intelligence, there are four main types. Action intelligence (interpersonal and intrapersonal) and academic intelligence (linguistic and logical-mathematical), but also environmental intelligence (naturalistic and musical) and methodological intelligence (visual-spatial and kinesthetic). However, cognitive intelligence is often highlighted, mentioning people with a high IQ. This is a minority of the population.
Two psychologists, Satoshi Kanazawa and Norman Li, from the Singapore Management University, studied the behaviors of people with high IQs, and published their findings in the British Journal of Psychology. By studying 15,000 people aged 18 to 28, they came to a surprising conclusion, establishing a very strong link between intelligence and a behavioral trait that is usually associated with a defect.
Solitude and intelligence
The two researchers based their research on the savannah theory: “savana theory of happiness”. In detail, it is a theory of evolutionary psychology developed by Satoshi Kanasawa. It is based on the principle that many of the things that make us happy are leftovers linked to the evolution of our species. And in 2024, even if our environment has changed, we live mostly in cities. Human beings will indeed seek out wide open spaces. Consequently, the most intelligent people will seek solitude, that is to say a setting close to that of our distant ancestors.
Our ancestors of the genus Homo, whose primitive habitat was the savannah, thus evolved according to this environment. “The human brain responds to the current environment as if it were the ancestral environment, as if we were still hunter-gatherers,” explains the specialist. This explains why we would be happier in places with a lower population density, and therefore why the most intelligent people would seek solitude: it would be a source of happiness.
Source: bibamagazine.fr
