Science Confirms Men Are PETRIFIED Of Smart Women

Yes, science has finally confirmed what we've all

long suspected: Men find intelligent women scary .
Oh, wait there's more! Science has also discovered
that when a woman does something better than a
man, his feelings of masculinity diminish.
A recent study called "(Psychological) Distance

Makes the Heart Grow Fonder " — carried out by Lora
E. Park, Ariana F. Young, and Paul W.
Eastwick — found that while men like the idea of
dating a smart woman, when it comes to the reality
of it, they're not interested. And when a woman is
better at a task then they are, they feel like less of
a man.

In the preliminary survey of the study, 86 percent of
men said that they would feel comfortable dating
someone smarter than them. In the series of
experiments that followed, the researchers tested the
validity of those claims.
In the first version of the study, 105 undergraduate
male participants read a hypothetical scenario about
a woman who did better than they did on a test, and
then the participants were asked to rate how
romantically desirable the woman seemed. In the
second version, the researchers had 151 male
undergraduates take an intelligence test and then
asked they if they were interested in meeting the
woman down the hall, who had either scored higher
or lower than them on the test.
Both of these studies found that when men
imagined a hypothetical woman who was smarter
than them, or only knew of the woman in an
abstract sense, they were interested in meeting or
possibly dating her. Apparently, a smart woman is
great in theory but not in practice.
In the next two versions of the study, the male
participants came in contact with a woman (who was
associated with the study) who either had done
better or worse on an I.Q. test than they had. After
the participants met the woman, took the test while
seated next to her, and heard both their scores read
aloud, the male participants were instructed to move
their chairs across from the woman.
The participants were then instructed to take a
survey about their first impressions of the other —
specifically how attractive and desirable they found
each other. The researchers were interested in the
actual physical distance between the two chairs as
the true measure of how attracted the man was to
the woman.

Not surprisingly, the men who were partnered with
a woman who scored higher on the intelligence test
felt the need to physically distance themselves
from her when moving their chairs. They
also tended to rate the woman as less attractive
and dateable than the men who interacted with a
woman and scored worse than they did.
The last two versions of the study (six all together)
found that men were less interested in dating and
interacting with a more intelligent woman when she
was face-to-face with them.
However, in the fifth study, when she was
psychologically distant (allegedly in the next room),
there wasn't any difference in the men's inclination
to date or interact with her, no matter how well she
scored on the test compared to them. In fact, the
men who never saw the woman showed a slight
tendency to want to interact with a woman who was
supposedly smarter.
The findings were summed up this way: "[The] six
studies revealed that when evaluating psychologically
distant targets, men showed greater attraction
toward women who displayed more (vs. less)
intelligence than themselves. In contrast, when
targets were psychologically near, men showed less
attraction toward women who outsmarted them."