When intelligence hurts and ignorance is bliss: Global pandemic as an evolutionarily novel threat to happiness

• Main Authors: KANAZAWA, Satoshi, LI, Norman P., YONG, Jose C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: coronavirus; epidemic; infectious diseases; subjective well- being; Personality and Social Contexts; Public Health; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3584; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4842/viewcontent/2022_Kanazawa_WhenIntelligenceHurts_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Introduction: The savanna theory of happiness posits that it is not only the current consequences of a given situation that affect happiness but also its ancestral consequences, and that the effect of ancestral consequences on happiness is stronger among less intelligent individuals. But what about...