Socialization and Intelligence
As humans, we always want to mingle and spend much of our time with friends. This makes us to become wiser, smarter and more intelligent. Oscar Ybarra and his colleagues at the University of Michigan explored the possibility that social interaction improves mental functioning. In a series of related studies, they tested the participants' level of cognitive functioning, comparing it to the frequency of participants' social interactions.
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