This article reports that higher intelligence increases the likelihood of abandoning familiar solutions in favor of better, novel ones, with openness to experience also playing a role depending on the quality of the new solution. It notes that social learning influences how people adapt strategies when better options emerge.

The topic is of interest to psychology readers because it highlights how cognitive abilities and personality traits interact to shape how individuals observe, evaluate, and adopt new behaviors in social contexts, illustrating mechanisms behind learning and innovation.

Article Title: Highly intelligent people are more likely to ditch old habits for better ideas, study finds

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/highly-intelligent-people-are-more-likely-to-ditch-old-habits-for-better-ideas-study-finds/

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Neurodivergence includes differences in thinking, learning, communicating, sensing, regulating emotions, and interacting with the the world.

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Missed signs of ADHD in students.

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Problems that come with my ADHD. By Elise Gravel

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