EGO ISSUES Why do some men run a mile from intelligent women? Gentlemen might say they prefer brains to blondes, but it seems that when faced with a romantic evening of oysters with a woman who might have far-superior brain power, many would rather pass to spend it with someone with far less mental wattage. For a new study, psychologists at the University of Buffalo, California Lutheran University and University of Texas questioned 105 men with a series of experiments and discovered that smart women made them feel less masculine. They found — and I’ll précis here — that even though most men like the idea of dating an intelligent woman, put them in front of one and that...
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