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The Innovation Arena: A Method for Comparing Innovative Problem-Solving Across Groups
Published on: May 13, 2022
Cultural innovation is not only a product of cognition but also of cultural context
Yotam Ben-Oren1, Erella Hovers2, Oren Kolodny1
1Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Silberman Institute for Life Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Yotam.ben-oren@mail.huji.ac.il Oren.kolodny@mail.huji.ac.il; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PxhzC24AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao; https://sites.google.com/view/oren-kolodny-homepage.
Abstract:
Innovations, such as symbolic artifacts, are a product of cognitive abilities but also of cultural context. Factors that may determine the emergence and retention of an innovation include the population's pre-existing cultural repertoire, exposure to relevant ways of thinking, and the invention's utility. Thus, we suggest that the production of symbolic artifacts is not guaranteed even in cognitively advanced societies.
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