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ArticleNature communications2020

Globalization and the rise and fall of cognitive control.

Mohsen Mosleh, Katelynn Kyker, Jonathan D Cohen, David G Rand

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Assortativity in cognition.Scientific reports · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mohsen MoslehSloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA. mmosleh@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7313-5035
Katelynn KykerDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8252-6839
Jonathan D CohenPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA.
David G RandSloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8975-2783

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The scale of human interaction is larger than ever before-people regularly interact with and learn from others around the world, and everyone impacts the global environment. We develop an evolutionary game theory model to ask how the scale of interaction affects the evolution of cognition. Our agents make decisions using automatic (e.g., reflexive) versus controlled (e.g., deliberative) cognition, interact with each other, and influence the environment (i.e., game payoffs). We find that globalized direct contact between agents can either favor or disfavor control, depending on whether controlled agents are harmed or helped by contact with automatic agents; globalized environment disfavors cognitive control, while also promoting strategic diversity and fostering mesoscale communities of more versus less controlled agents; and globalized learning destroys mesoscale communities and homogenizes the population. These results emphasize the importance of the scale of interaction for the evolution of cognition, and help shed light on modern challenges.

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InternationalityCognitionCooperative BehaviorGame TheoryHumans

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PMID32555322
PMCPMC7303166

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