Intelligent men less likely to cheat

By Matthew Moore Published: 7:37PM GMT twenty-eight February 2010

Researchers at a British university found that men with higher IQs place larger worth on monogamy and passionate exclusivity than their less smart peers.

But the tie in in between required passionate probity and comprehension is not mirrored in women, it seems.

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The researchers could find no justification that crafty women are some-more expected than the ubiquitous race to sojourn faithful.

The patterns were unclosed by Dr Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Political Science in a paper published in the Mar book of the biography Social Psychology Quarterly.

As piece of the investigate he analysed dual vital US surveys that guarded the amicable attitudes and IQs of thousands of teenagers and adults.

He concluded: "As the experimental research ... shows, some-more smart men are some-more expected to worth monogamy and passionate exclusivity than less smart men."

Dr Kanazawa claims that the association in in between comprehension and monogamy in men has the origins in evolutionary development.

Sexual exclusivity is an "evolutionary novel" peculiarity that would have been of small good to early man, who was automatic to be promiscuous, he argues.

The complicated universe no longer confers such an evolutionary value to men who have multiform passionate partners - but it is usually smart men are means to strew the mental container of their class and adopt new modes of poise

Other "evolutionary novel" qualities that are some-more usual between people of higher comprehension embody liberalism and atheism, his investigate indicated.