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Study Finds Higher Intelligence Enhances Judging Others' Smarts

4/6/2026

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A Germany-based study published in Intelligence found that people with higher intelligence and better emotion perception were more accurate at judging others' intelligence from short video clips.
The study involved 198 participants, mostly university students, who judged intelligence from video clips.
Gender and empathy did not significantly influence judgment accuracy.
Christoph Heine and colleagues authored the study, raising questions about the ecological validity of video-based intelligence judgments.

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A Germany-based study published in Intelligence found that people with higher intelligence and better emotion perception were more accurate at judging others' intelligence from short video clips.
The study involved 198 participants, mostly university students, who judged intelligence from video clips.
Gender and empathy did not significantly influence judgment accuracy.
Christoph Heine and colleagues authored the study, raising questions about the ecological validity of video-based intelligence judgments.