Why do intelligent people like to watch base series
'14.04.2018'
Source: GoRabbit
Finally, scientists were able to answer the question of why smart, educated and successful people are drawing to watch “trash” and low-end serials.
It turns out that people with high intellectual performance are attracted to low-quality television shows as often as ordinary people, says GoRabbit. Television shows such as Bachelor in American, Ranetki, SashaTanya and Real Housewives speak directly to human nature, whatever its mental retardation coefficient.
Why? Psychology Today has several answers:
- Watching the lives of famous or rich characters (or, conversely, young and dramatic), which is completely opposite to ours, allows us to watch the series without much stress. We relax and forget about our own stressful situations.
- TV show characters dare to take risks that we will never take in real life. For example, getting drunk and doing bad, life-changing things for the worse, is what people in ordinary life learn not to do after their 20 anniversary.
- The very idea of observing people going against their own interests (for example, quick sex with a stranger at a friend's wedding) causes us to thrill. This is just something that is much better and safer to watch on the screen than to do it yourself.
- Some TV shows allow us to find ourselves in the ideal fantasy of a perfectionist. TV series heroes often have money / opportunities / time to focus on what they like. Watching similar TV shows, we can find ourselves in our own fantasy, where we could live “to the fullest”: have a dream body thanks to expensive procedures and a personal trainer; to be the best partner and parent due to financial opportunities and so on.
- We can draw our own conclusions about human nature, watching how the characters “wriggle out” from various serial stories.
The next time your friends feel guilty about the need to watch the next episode of their favorite, but not the most intelligent, show, remind them that even smart people need rest. This is perfectly normal, because the rest does not always have to be highly intelligent.
