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| Psychology Today
Does being too smart reduce your attractiveness? Or is intelligence sexy? Research reveals which partners find brainpower appealing.

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Dating for Smart People: When Is Intelligence Attractive? How to make intelligence, sapiosexuality, and romantic attraction work for you. Why Relationships Matter Take our Relationship Satisfaction Test Find a therapist to strengthen relationships. There is more than one way to be attractive to a romantic partner. In fact, people tend to look for a number of different traits in a mate. Beyond that, romantic partners often find unique features more appealing over time, too. Given all of that, how does intelligence fit in? Is brainpower a benefit in the mating market, or does being too smart reduce a person's appeal? Research shares some answers. Research on Intelligence and Attraction. To help answer these questions, research by Gignac, Darbyshire, and Ooi (2018) asked participants to evaluate potential mates, at different IQ levels, for both sexual partners and long-term relationships. The team also created a questionnaire to measure the degree to which each participant found intelligence sexually attractive overall (called Sapiosexuality ). Finally, cognitive tests were used to measure the IQ of each participant as well, in order to see whether there was a relationship between a person's own intelligence and their level of sapiosexuality too. Results indicated that participants generally found potential mates more attractive as the intelligence of those mates increased—at least, until they got to the 90th percentile (IQ of about 120). After that point, however, very high IQ seemed to become moderately less desirable in a mate, for both a sexual partner and a long-term relationship. The authors suggested that this moderate drop in attractiveness might be due to a potential trade-off, where very high IQ might result in lower performance on other desirable characteristics like social skills and interpersonal functioning. After all, more extreme success in one area might require less focus and development in another. Nevertheless, additional results by Gignac, Darbyshire, and Ooi (2018) suggest that a subset of individuals do find very smart people particularly appealing—especially as sexual partners. Overall, 8.1% of participants were evaluated as having a high degree of sapiosexuality. Such participants tended to agree with statements such as, a very high level of intelligence alone is enough for me to be attracted to someone sexually" and "listening to someone speak very intelligently arouses me sexually," as well as "a very high level of intelligence in a partner is necessary for me to be attracted to them sexually." Thus, while intelligence appears to lose some appeal at the very highest levels for the majority of individuals, a smaller percentage of folks tend to find high IQ essential and irresistible in a mate . Curiously enough, however, the sapiosexuality of individuals does not seem to correlate with their own intelligence. In other words, it is possible for a person to be attracted to high intelligence without being highly intelligent themselves (and vice versa). Following up on this last point, additional research was conducted by Jonason and associates (2019). In this study, however, rather than looking at absolute intelligence, the team asked participants to consider the relative intelligence of potential partners. In other words, participants were instructed to consider how attractive they found someone less intelligent, equally intelligent, and more intelligent than them as a short-term or long-term partner. Additional evaluations about the participant's own mate value and their preferences for physical attractiveness in a partner were conducted as well. Results obtained in this study suggest that people generally prefer a partner (both short-term and long-term) who match their level of intelligence, more than one who is below their own intelligence. Beyond that, however, partners who are more intelligent are generally not more appealing than partners who are just equal to them. Thus, for most folks, the goal appears to be finding a partner of at least equal intelligence . This is particularly true for women higher in mate value—as they seem to be the most likely to reject a partner who is less intelligent. Beyond that, Jonason and associates (2019) also found a relationship between participants' considerations of physical attractiveness and intelligence in potential partners. Specifically, participants tended to focus on finding a sufficient level of physical attractiveness in a partner (especially for short-term relationships) and then consider levels of intelligence.













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