Anxiety sucks. Seriously. It’s the worst.
But there might be one upside to being plagued by constant worries and the fear that everyone secretly hates you: intelligence.
As The Science of Us explains in their new video, anxiety might actually make people smarter – those who have been diagnosed with anxiety tend to have a higher level of intelligence.
They explain that in 2014 a group of scientists in Canada asked 125 undergraduate students to take surveys measuring their intelligence and their general tendencies to stress out.
The researchers found that there was a strong correlation between anxiety and verbal intelligence.
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