Smart people tend to have a pronounced control over their feelings, thoughts, and actions when faced with impulses and temptations. In a 2009 study conducted at Yale, psychologists tried to stipulate a correlation between self-control and intelligence. The participants had to take an IQ test in exchange for money.
Participants could opt for immediate, smaller payment or wait out, and get paid a higher sum of money. After the study was finished, the analysis of the results revealed that the participants who chose the latter option tended to score better on their IQ tes
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