Affluence boosted intelligence? How the interaction between cognition and environment may have produced an eighteenth-century Flynn effect during the Industrial Revolution
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| Publication date | 20-11-2019 |
| Journal | Behavioral and Brain Sciences |
| Article number | E211 |
| Volume | Issue number | 42 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
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| Abstract | Cognition played a pivotal role in the acceleration of technological innovation during the Industrial Revolution. Growing affluence may have provided favourable environmental conditions for a boost in cognition, enabling individuals to tackle more complex (industrial) problems. Dynamical systems thinking may provide useful tools to describe sudden transitions like the Industrial Revolution, by modelling the recursive feedback between psychology and environment. |
| Document type | Comment/Letter to the editor |
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In response to: N. Baumard (2019) Psychological origins of the Industrial Revolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 42, e189. |
| Language | English |
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19000190
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