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Men like the idea of dating smart women but their egos can’t take it, says study http://ift.tt/1OI55Il alisonlynch2013

A new study has found that while men like the idea of a woman who’s smarter than them, in reality, they’re less likely to date them.

Researchers at the University of Buffalo, California Lutheran University, and the University of Texas confirmed that men are in fact intimidated by intelligent women, whether they realise it or not.

For the study, called (Psychological) Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (oh science), the researchers enlisted the help of 105 straight men. First, they gave them a hypothetical scenario where a woman had either outperformed or underperformed them in a maths or English course.

The men were then told to imagine that woman as a romantic partner.

In the hypothetical scenario, the guys didn’t have a problem imagining life with a smarter woman.

But, when the same experiment was carried out for real – as in the men were given intelligence tests and then… Read the full story http://ift.tt/1QSLfrC October 21, 2015 at 03:32PM

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