Smart people think more than most. They can sit by themselves quietly for hours. After all, they've got an endless number of questions and problems to think about in their head, and they like doing it. This means they are very careful with the opinions and stances they take.
The smarter the person, the faster information zips around the brain, a UCLA study finds. And this ability to think quickly apparently is inherited. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, looked at the brains and intelligence of 92 people. All the participants took standard IQ tests.
People with higher psychometric intelligence have, on average, larger brains, and possibly faster neural conduction speed. A few small functional brain-scanning studies suggest that, in healthy individuals, people who are of higher IQ have lower cerebral metabolic rates during mentally active conditions.
Now work conducted in our laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that baseline pupil size is closely related to individual differences in intelligence. The larger the pupils, the higher the intelligence, as measured by tests of reasoning, attention and memory.
In predicting intelligence from brain scans, the algorithm is doing something that humans cannot, because even an experienced neuroscientist cannot look at a brain scan and tell how intelligent a person is.
For highly intelligent people, whilst they are most interested in finding solutions for real-life problems, they also enjoy pondering deep philosophical ideas and abstract concepts. From a young age, they have an insatiable curiosity about life; They thrive on learning.
Some psychologists believe that the ability to listen to another person, to empathize with, and to understand their point of view is one of the highest forms of intelligent behavior.
They try to figure things out themselves.
They develop all kinds of mental muscles by doing this, and they can usually swim on their own. They're okay sinking for a few seconds. Intelligent people want to struggle a little first. An intelligent person might look stubborn, but they're really just self-sufficient.
This isn't necessarily true, and while not all quiet people are necessarily smart, highly intelligent people will often refrain from speaking if they are accessing a situation. They will take some time to think about what was said and prepare an adequate response, and they find silence better than pointless small talk.
According to research, you sound more intelligent if you speak relatively slowly. (Think of it as the Jeff Goldblum effect.) Speaking at a measured pace makes you seem smarter--as if your words are better thought-out (even if they aren't).
It's found that people with a high IQ are not just better at remembering the things they need to remember; they are better at ignoring the things that aren't important. And that makes them better at retaining what they need to know.
Why intelligence is so sexually attractive? Two major psychological mechanisms seem to underlie sapiosexuality: personality halo and arousal transfer. In the well-known attractiveness halo, someone perceived as beautiful is assumed to have other good qualities as well.
Smart folks are those who can make any topic, no matter the complexity, easy and fun for listeners to understand. They're concise when delivering their message. They sound authoritative yet warm and they have a strong and consistent verbal brand. When most people try to sound smart, they're doing it wrong.
They're open-minded. Smart people don't close themselves off to new ideas or opportunities. Hammett writes that intelligent people are “willing to accept and consider other views with value and broad-mindedness” and that they are “open to alternative solutions.”
Spatial intelligence or picture smart is a quality that is perhaps the rarest of all the nine Howard Gardner categorized.
Signs of intelligence include better rhythm, liking dark humour, being prone to worry, sleeping late, high self-control and new ideas. Signs of intelligence are many and varied and go way beyond a standard IQ test.
Science supports laziness
On average, people who are less physically active tend to be brainier than physically active people, according to a 2015 study published in the Journal of Health Psychology.
While they might have high standards and big picture concerns, research shows that people with high IQs are actually more likely to be happy; data from the research showed that people with the highest IQs were much happier than those with the lowest IQs.
According to the study published in PLOS ONE journal, faces that are perceived as highly intelligent are rather prolonged with a broader distance between the eyes, a larger nose, a slight upturn to the corners of the mouth, and a sharper, pointing, less rounded chin.
The Intelligent Eye android mobile application is presented in this paper. The application provides assistance to visually impaired people by providing a set of useful features: light detection, color detection, object recognition, and banknote recognition. It has a user friendly interface customized for blind people.
New research debunks the belief that you can assess intelligence based on facial features. Researchers have identified more than 70 genes that affect variation in both brain and facial structure. The genes don't influence cognitive ability, however.