" People with high IQ can hate more & be more abrasive ! "

" People with high IQ can hate more & be more abrasive ! "
December 17, 2014



" It Takes Brains to Behave Spitefully" 
Research Fact : 
Preschoolers with greater cognitive ability have a greater propensity to behave spitefully toward others in a game, taking intentional actions that decrease their partners’ payoffs even at some cost to themselves !! 

Experiment : 
In an experiment, a 1-standard-deviation increase in a cognitive ability score increased a child’s likelihood of behaving spitefully by 8 percentage points. 

Why  ? 
Spiteful behavior requires a certain level of cognitive ability, the researchers point out: The behavior’s costs and benefits must be calculated and the consequences taken into account.

Research Conducted by :   Elisabeth Bügelmayer and C. Katharina Spiess of DIW Berlin in Germany.