Eleven articles and 27 authors pay tribute to James Flynn: A summary and critique of special issue articles on the Flynn effect

Abstract

This article, written by the guest editor, is an introduction to a special issue of Intelligence. The special issue includes eleven research papers on the Flynn effect, each written to pay tribute to the past work by James Flynn, who passed away in December 2020. The papers are organized in the current article into four categories: empirical papers, theoretical papers, methodological papers, and integrative papers. Each paper is summarized separately, and then the papers are discussed in an integrative critique that makes a number of points about the current status of research on the Flynn effect.