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Does your family make you smarter? : nature, nurture, and human autonomy /

Does your family make you smarter? James R. Flynn presents an exciting new method for estimating the effects of family on a range of cognitive abilities. Rather than using twin and adoption studies, he analyses IQ tables that have been hidden in manuals over the last 65 years, and shows that family...

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Main Authors: Flynn, James R. (James Robert), 1934- (Author)
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Intellect.
Human genetics.
Nature and nurture.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Summary: Does your family make you smarter? James R. Flynn presents an exciting new method for estimating the effects of family on a range of cognitive abilities. Rather than using twin and adoption studies, he analyses IQ tables that have been hidden in manuals over the last 65 years, and shows that family environment can confer a significant advantage or disadvantage to your level of intelligence. Wading into the nature vs. nurture debate, Flynn banishes the pessimistic notion that by the age of seventeen, people's cognitive abilities are solely determined by their genes. He argues that intelligence is also influenced by human autonomy genetics and family notwithstanding, we all have the capacity to choose to enhance our cognitive performance. He concludes by reconciling this new understanding of individual differences with his earlier research on intergenerational trends (the 'Flynn effect') culminating in a general theory of intelligence.
Carrier Form: xviii, 258 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and indexes.
ISBN: 9781316604465 (paperback) :
1316604462 (paperback)
9781107150058 (hardback)
1107150051 (hardback)
Index Number: BF711
CLC: B848.5
Call Number: B848.5/F648-2
Contents: Part I: Human autonomy. Twins and autonomy -- Justice and freedom -- The great debate -- Slow and quick decay of family effects -- Reconciliation with twins and adoptions -- The fairness factor -- Part II: Intelligence. The raven's revolution -- Learning from astronomy -- The meta-theory of intelligence -- Scientific theories of intelligence -- Psychology and Cardinal Bellarmine.

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