Intelligent men less likely to cheat

MEN with high IQs are less likely to be unfaithful to their partners than their less intelligent peers, according to a researcher at a British university. Interestingly, though, theres no evidence that intelligent women place a higher premium on monogamy than the general population.
The research was carried out by Dr Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and published in the March edition of Social Psychology Quarterly. After analysing two major US surveys that examined the IQs and social attitudes of thousands of teenagers and adults, he concluded that there was a link between intelligence and monogamy:
As the empirical analysis ... shows, more intelligent men are more likely to value monogamy than less intelligent men. Im not convinced. The problem with surveys such as these is that the respondents dont always tell the truth. A more cynical social scientist might conclude that the distinguishing characteristic of intelligent men when it comes to fidelity is not that they cheat less but that theyre more likely to lie about it. Surely, never telling anyone that youve cheated - including a bespectacled researcher with a clipboard standing on your doorstep - is the smartest way not to get caught? This is particularly true in America, where wives often hire private detectives to check on their husbands. These detectives are fiendishly clever and more than capable of disguising themselves as social scientists. The discrepancy between the responses of clever women and clever men might just be because women in general are more credulous - it didnt occur to the smart women to lie to the researchers, as it did to the men.
Dr Kanazawas thinks the reason intelligent are more likely to be faithful is because their behaviour is less determined by their biological programming.
According to the theory of evolution, men are biologically predisposed to cheat because a species in which the male behaves like Tiger Woods has an evolutionary advantage over one in which the male is monogamous.
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But intelligent men can transcend this predisposition, says Dr Kanazawa. And theres an evolutionary explanation for this, too. A species in which intelligent men are capable of adapting their behaviour, leaving behind their ancestral programming, is more likely to survive than one which isnt.
Nice theory, but I prefer mine. The ability to lie, like the proclivity to cheat, is hardwired into our reptile brains and smart men are just better at it than stupid ones. Telegraph