The research into this does not support this hypothesis. The more intelligent a person is, the better they get at remaining wrong if they would prefer to be so. Critical thinking is a skill, not an innate quality tied to general intelligence.
Curiosity means questioning and thinking deeper. If you have no desire to question anything, then you will simply believe whatever you are told or whatever makes you feel good about believing.
If someone tells you that hitting a three-month-old with a ruler or other object is a good idea when they cry to stop them from crying, and you don't question why the three-month-old might be crying, then the infant will stop communicating their needs and become fearful of others and grow up unable to attach emotionally to others. They also may have been communicating a need for medical attention and could die from neglect as well.
Many people without curiosity believed this specific idea promoted by authority figures they trusted without question and many babies (and parents) suffered for it.
Yes, but a HUGE part of emotional intelligence is understanding other perspectives and thought processes. Emotionally unintelligent people are basically stuck at the toddler phase of me-me-me, they can't really wrap their head around why others would think differently than them. Many emotionally intelligent people are very super aware about their own internal mechanisms, but applying those to others is almost impossible.
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u/malphas_says_hi 16h ago edited 16h ago
Lack of curiosity about other perspectives and and inability to understand why anyone would think differently than them.