> which translates to being somehow smart I've seen smart software developers abandoning their reason and logic in other areas of life. Being smart in one area

> which translates to being somehow smart I've seen smart software developers abandoning their reason and logic in other areas of life. Being smart in one area doesn't necessarily mean you're smart in another, even when the skills are transferable! It varies on a person by person basis (I also met smart software devs who used that knowledge to be smart in other fields). If you want to know how things like this can happen from a neuroscience point of view, read up on Damasio and his somatic marker hypothesis. It's a related/similar phenomenon.