{"id":1686,"date":"2016-03-21T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2016-03-21T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T14:07:09","slug":"why-smart-people-are-better-off-with-fewer-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/why-smart-people-are-better-off-with-fewer-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Why smart people are better off with fewer friends<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post:<\/p>\n<p>Hell might actually\u00a0be\u00a0other people \u00a0&#8212; at least\u00a0if you&#8217;re really smart.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the implication of fascinating new research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/26847844\" target=\"_blank\">published last month<\/a> in the British Journal of Psychology. Evolutionary psychologists Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics\u00a0and\u00a0Norman Li of Singapore Management University dig in to the question of what makes a life well-lived. While\u00a0traditionally the domain of priests, philosophers and\u00a0novelists,\u00a0in recent years\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/opinion\/gallup\/189989\/happiest-people-world.aspx?g_source=WWWV7HP&amp;g_medium=topic&amp;g_campaign=tiles\" target=\"_blank\">survey researchers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/topics\/economics-of-happiness\" target=\"_blank\">economists<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/greatergood.berkeley.edu\/article\/item\/the_biology_of_happiness\" target=\"_blank\">biologists<\/a> and scientists have been\u00a0tackling that question.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/03\/18\/why-smart-people-are-better-off-with-fewer-friends\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: Hell might actually\u00a0be\u00a0other people \u00a0&#8212; at least\u00a0if you&#8217;re really smart. That&#8217;s the implication of fascinating new research published last month in the British Journal of Psychology. Evolutionary psychologists Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics\u00a0and\u00a0Norman Li of Singapore Management University dig in to the question of what makes a life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why smart people are better off with fewer friends - OnWords<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/why-smart-people-are-better-off-with-fewer-friends\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why smart people are better off with fewer friends - OnWords\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the Washington Post: Hell might actually\u00a0be\u00a0other people \u00a0&#8212; at least\u00a0if you&#8217;re really smart. 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