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Rejection massively reduces IQ |
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Emma Young, |
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Rejection can dramatically reduce a person's
IQ and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their
aggression, according to new research. "It's been known for a long time that
rejected kids tend to be more violent and aggressive," says Roy
Baumeister of the Baumeister's team used two separate procedures
to investigate the effects of rejection. In the first, a group of strangers
met, got to know each other, and then separated. Each individual was asked to
list which two other people they would like to work with on a task. They were
then told they had been chosen by none or all of the others. In the second, people taking a personality test
were given false feedback, telling them they would end up alone in life or
surrounded by friends and family. Aggression scores increased in the rejected
groups. But the IQ scores also immediately dropped by about 25 per cent, and
their analytical reasoning scores dropped by 30 per cent. "These are very big effects - the biggest
I've got in 25 years of research," says Baumeister. "This tells us
a lot about human nature. People really seem designed to get along with
others, and when you're excluded, this has significant effects." Baumeister thinks rejection interferes with a
person's self-control. "To live in society, people have to have an inner
mechanism that regulates their behaviour. Rejection defeats the purpose of
this, and people become impulsive and self-destructive. You have to use
self-control to analyse a problem in an IQ test, for example - and instead,
you behave impulsively." Baumeister presented his results at the annual
conference of the British Psychological Society in |
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