- [Narrator] Hey, Psych2Goers. Welcome back to our channel. If you clicked on this video, you're probably wondering if you're smart. While a great report card doesn't define all types of intelligence, there are a few bizarre habits a lot of intelligent
people happen to share. Here are some of the weird habits smart people tend to share according to psychological research. One, you're a night owl. Can't go to sleep on time, not just on time, but a reasonable hour? A lot of intelligent
people share this habit according to research. The London School of Economics
and Political Science conducted a study that found that people who often find
themselves going to bed later have higher IQs. The researchers explained in their study that the Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis suggests that more intelligent individuals are more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel
values and preferences than less intelligent individuals. But general intelligence has
no effect on the acquisition and espousal of
evolutionarily familiar values and preferences. They go on to explain that
one example of such choice within genetic constraint
is circadian rhythms. Survey of ethnographies
of traditional societies suggest that nocturnal activities were probably rare in the
ancestral environment. So the hypothesis would predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely to be nocturnal than less intelligent individuals. The analysis of the
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
confirms the prediction. With such an instinctive behavior, it seems you can't help but
sense a danger in the night, or you just really like staying up late and watching YouTube videos. Two, you live in a disorderly environment. Is your room a mess, your
workspace, your hair? Well, a messy environment
might not be so bad if you value creativity. According to a research experiment from the University of Minnesota, participants in a disorderly room were more creative than
participants in an orderly room. The study says, "Why does creativity spark
in a messy environment?" Research scientist, Jonathan Wai, PhD, says that smarter people tend
to have creativity as a trait, which can lead to their
messy lifestyle or room. Wai guesses that it's not
messiness that helps creativity, but creativity which may create messiness. He goes on to say that such people tend to get lost in thought
focusing on a problem or issue, and crumminess becomes of less importance than focusing on the problem at hand. While a messy room sounds great
for all artists out there, it may not be great when it
comes to your food choices. In the University of Minnesota study, their first experiment showed that relative to the participants
in a disorderly room, participants in an orderly
room chose healthier snacks and donated more money
to clean or not to clean. Three, you like to doodle. Do you find doodling to
be a hobby of its own? Your memory may just thank you. A 2009 study found that their subjects in a group that doodled performed better on a monitoring task. And on a surprise memory test, they recalled 29% more
information than the other group. What exactly were they doodling? They simply shaded printed shapes while listening to a phone call. (phone ringing) So next time you have to
remember something important during that class lecture, bring the coloring
books, not the textbooks. I'm just kidding, kind of. Four, you swear. Timothy Jay, PhD, a
well-known expert in cursing, conducted a study with his colleagues and found that those who
came up with more curse words generally had a larger vocabulary. Jay told Medical Daily that
taboo or swear word fluency is positively correlated
with overall verbal fluency. Dr. Jay told Medical Daily, the more words you
generated in one category meant the more words you
generated in another category orally and verbally. Time to bring out the swear jar and start counting your quarters. Be prepared to say goodbye
as you test out this theory. How many swear words can
you come up in your head in 30 seconds? Share with us the number only, folks. Five, you daydream a lot. Catch yourself daydreaming while working on that
gruesome homework assignment? (playful upbeat music) It might not be so bad after all. There may be some benefits in
taking a quick daydream break while working on another simple
task according to research. A 2012 study from the
University of California found that when subjects
engaged in an undemanding task during an incubation period
from a demanding task, it led to substantial
improvements in performance on previously encountered
problems, according to the study. All participants were
given a demanding task. Some subjects were given
a break, some no break, while some were given an
undemanding task to complete that maximize mind wandering before they went back
to the demanding task. According to the study, critically, the context
that improved performance after the incubation period was associated with higher
levels of mind wandering. They go on to suggest
that this data suggests that engaging in simple external tasks that allow the mind to wander may facilitate creative problem solving. So taking a quick
doodling or coloring break might not be so bad when you're
faced with a tough problem on that next assignment. It may give your head some time to work out the problem
in the back of your mind. That is while you're bringing to life an Elmo on the pages
of your coloring book. Hey, look, he has wings. Six, you like sick jokes. According to a 2017 study
from the University of Vienna, subjects who enjoyed sick
jokes often scored higher on nonverbal and verbal intelligence. 159 adults rated sick cartoons. And then researchers measured participants using psychological and
standard intelligence tests. What were the types of
cartoons the subjects enjoyed? A kind of humor that
treats sinister subjects like death, disease,
deformity, handicap, or warfare with bitter amusement and
presents such tragic, distressing or morbid topics in humorous terms. The subjects who enjoy
these types of cartoons scored higher on nonverbal
and verbal intelligence. Try to open up the back of the newspaper and read the funnies. So, do you have some
of these weird habits? Do you think it's because you're smart or just can't stop watching
midnight YouTube videos and doodling, not to
mention the swear jar? Let us know your habits in
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