To do so, she asked participants to declare how often they had experienced various stressful life events, from the relatively trivial (such as getting sunburnt or missing a flight), to the serious (catching an STD or cheating on your partner) and the downright awful (being put in jail).20 Although the measures of general intelligence did seem to have a small effect on these outcomes, the participants’ rationality scores were about three times more important in determining their behaviour.
