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*'''Slow LH''': Though cognitive specialization, crucial for success in modern society, seems linked to a slower [[life history]] speed, LHS itself seems to be generally unrelated to general intelligence, with the evidence generally showing it may only be related to how intelligence is 'invested' in certain specialized cognitive skills.<ref>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-39868-004</ref><br /> There is however, evidence that higher levels of intelligence are actually linked to a slower life history speed on the most basic level, that is, delayed reproduction.<br />Some research has indicated that the negative relationship between IQ and fertility in men reverses in some samples when age range of men included is extended to men in their middle ages, as low IQ men are much more likely to reproduce young and highly intelligent men are more likely to have children very late compared to lower IQ men.<ref>https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0359</ref><br /> This study also found that more intelligent men generally had their children with a single woman, while less intelligent men were more likely to be serially monogamous. This indicates strong pair-bonding and lower promiscuity among the intelligent in general, also traits hypothesized to be associated with a slow life history strategy.<br />It is also interesting to note that East Asians appear to generally have a slower life history speed compared to other major races. This Asian-slower life history link, combined with the Asian over-representation in higher education in the US,<ref>https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1264683376151105537/photo/1M/</ref> may both explain the higher incel rates among Asian men, in particular,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/File:No_relationship_adoscents.png</ref> and also may partly explain why incel rates are higher among academics (especially those in the hard sciences), at least in the United States where Asians are over-represented among the college-educated.

*'''Polarization with lower class''': Status signaling among upper class might distinguish/polarize itself from activities in lower classes where people produce many offspring for economic reasons, hoping one child will make it (favoring fast LH), thus making rapid production of offspring viewed as uncouth behavior in higher class circles.

*'''Inhibition, cautiousness and responsibility:''' Higher levels of intelligence may be generally associated with greater cautiousness and a propensity to 'overthink' situations which results in lower levels of impulsive and irresponsible behavior. There is evidence that prison inmates with higher IQ's are more well behaved.<ref>https://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/5/1-17541_Study-Prison-Inmate-Intelligence-Influences-Miscon_article-wide.html</ref> High IQ people have fewer conduct problems in school<ref>http://www.lscp.net/persons/ramus/docs/INTELL18B.pdf</ref> and higher job performance as well <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)</ref> Some low IQ couples are so impulsive they even have sex in school, in the back of the classroom, during the lesson.<ref>https://www.wfsb.com/news/students-face-charges-after-video-shows-them-having-sex-in/article_3adabd96-c5b9-11e8-bfe8-93cd1d661f85.html</ref>Impulsivity appears to be a strong predictor of sexual success, particularly among men, with teenager boys with ADHD having twice the number of sexual partners,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Teenage_boys_with_ADHD_have_double_the_amount_of_sexual_partners_vs._.27normal.27_teens</ref> it being found a variant in the [[dopamine]] transporter gene associated with impulsive behavior is associated with a 80-100% higher lifetime sexual partner count among adult men,<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17245411/</ref> and there is also evidence young people who drink more alcohol have much higher likelihoods of having recently had multiple sexual partners.<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9859017/</ref> Thus, if intelligent people are less likely to behave impulsively and engage in risky behaviors like binge drinking, this could partly explain the lower partner counts among the more intelligent, as cautious, responsible behavior appears to curtail many opportunities for engaging in casual sex. Behavioral inhibition could also be directly unattractive to women, as some studies only find a relationship between genes for impulsiveness and sexual partner count in men, though this relationship could be due to women's more passive courtship style, with men generally expected to perform the initial approach and escalate first every step of the way up to sex.

*'''Assortative mating''': there is substantial assortative mating for intelligence (people preferring to form relationships with those of roughly similar intelligence to themselves). As there are exponentially more men than women at very high levels of intelligence (> 130),<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_have_a_slightly_lower_average_IQ_which_drastically_reduces_their_intellectual_output</ref> it could be that these men may struggle more to form romantic relationships with women than less intelligent men, due to the much fewer amount of women with a similar level of intelligence to themselves. This is assuming that women don't exhibit [[hypergamy]] in terms of intelligence, which would be predicted somewhat by their preference for men with higher levels of status and resources, the attainment of which is moderately associated with intelligence.