A recent study challenges the Savanna Principle or “Savanna Theory of Happiness”, that humans evolutionarily prefer an environment less populated with other humans, and that the more interactions they have with close friends, the happier they are. The significant exception to this idea is that intelligent people are happier when they spend LESS time with friends. Check out the article below with the unlikely title, “Country roads, take me home. . . to my friends: How intelligence, population density, and friendship affect modern happiness” and a related article, “The happiness paradox: your friends are happier than you.”
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Intelligent people are probably happier alone
