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Lecture 1. GENIUS I: DEFINITIONS & MANIFESTATIONS

Albert, R. S. (1976). Toward a behavioral definition of genius. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 309-329). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1975)

Albert, R. S., & Runco, M. A. (1999). A history of research on creativity. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of creativity (pp. 16-34). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ball, L. (2014). The genius in history: Historiographic explorations. In In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 3-19). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Cassandro, V. J., & Simonton, D. K. (2002). Creativity and genius. In C. L. M. Keyes & J. Haidt (Eds.), Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well-lived (pp. 163-183). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2014). The systems model of creativity and its applications. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 533-545). Oxford: Wiley.

Kaufman, J. C., & Beghetto, R. A. (2009). Beyond big and little: The four c model of creativity. Review of General Psychology, 13, 1-13.

Murray, P. (Ed.). (1989). Genius: The history of an idea. Oxford: Blackwell.

Runco, M., & Jaeger, G. J. (2012). The standard definition of creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 21, 92-96.

Simonton, D. K. (2004). Group artistic creativity: Creative clusters and cinematic success in 1,327 feature films. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 1494-1520.

Simonton, D. K. (2012). Creative genius as a personality phenomenon: Definitions, methods, findings, and issues. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, 691-706.

Simonton, D. K. (2012). Taking the US Patent Office creativity criteria seriously: A quantitative three-criterion definition and its implications. Creativity Research Journal, 24, 97-106.

Simonton, D. K (2013). What is a creative idea? Little-c versus Big-C creativity. In J. Chan & K. Thomas (Eds.), Handbook of research on creativity (pp. 69-83). Cheltenham Glos, UK: Edward Elgar.

Sternberg, R. J., & Bridges, S. L. (2014). Varieties of genius. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 185-197). Oxford: Wiley.

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Lecture 2. GENIUS II: HISTORIOMETRIC MEASUREMENT

Cole, S., & Cole, J. R. (1971). Measuring the quality of sociological research: Problems in the use of the Science Citation Index. American Sociologist, 6, 23-29.

Ginsburgh, V., & Weyers, S. (2014). In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 511-532). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Hart, M. H. (2000). The 100: A ranking of the most influential persons in history (revised & updated). Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press.

Ludwig, A. M. (1992). The Creative Achievement Scale. Creativity Research Journal, 5, 109-124.

Murray, C. (2003). Human accomplishment: The pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950. New York: HarperCollins.

Murray, C. (2014). Genius in world civilization. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 586-608). Oxford: Wiley.

Simonton, D. K. (1984). Genius, creativity, and leadership: Historiometric inquiries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Simonton, D. K. (1990). Psychology, science, and history: An introduction to historiometry. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Simonton, D. K. (1996). Presidents’ wives and First Ladies: On achieving eminence within a traditional gender role. Sex Roles, 35, 309-336.

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Latent-variable models of posthumous reputation: A quest for Galton’s G. In D. K. Simonton, Genius and creativity: Selected papers (pp. 125-156). Greenwich, CT: Ablex. (Original work published 1991)

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Leaders of American psychology, 1879-1967: Career development, creative output, and professional achievement. In D. K. Simonton, Genius and creativity: Selected papers (pp. 157-190). Greenwich, CT: Ablex. (Original work published 1992)

Simonton, D. K. (1998). Achieved eminence in minority and majority cultures: Convergence versus divergence in the assessments of 294 African Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 804-817.

Simonton, D. K. (1998). Fickle fashion versus immortal fame: Transhistorical assessments of creative products in the opera house. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 198-210.

Simonton, D. K. (2003). Qualitative and quantitative analyses of historical data. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 617-640.

Simonton, D. K. (2004). The “Best Actress” paradox: Outstanding feature films versus exceptional performances by women. Sex Roles, 50, 781-794.

Simonton, D. K. (2014). Historiometric studies of genius. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 87-106). Oxford: Wiley.

Whipple, E. M. (2004). Eminence revisited. History of Psychology, 7, 265-296.

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Lecture 3. LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS: PROBLEM SOLVING

Klahr, D. (2000). Exploring science: The cognition and development of discovery processes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kounios, J., & Beeman, M. (2009). The Aha! moment: The cognitive neuroscience of insight. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 210-216.

Nielsen, B. D., Pickett, C. L., & Simonton, D. K. (2008). Conceptual versus experimental creativity: Which works best on convergent and divergent thinking tasks? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2, 131-138.

Paulus, P. B., & Nijstand, B. A. (Eds.). (2003). Group creativity: Innovation through collaboration. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Perkins, D. N. (2000). The eureka effect: The art and logic of breakthrough thinking. New York: Norton

Sawyer, R. K. (2011). The cognitive neuroscience of creativity: A critical review. Creativity Research Journal, 23, 137-154.

Smith, S. M., Ward, T. B., & Finke, R. A. (Eds.). (1995). The creative cognition approach. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.

Ward, T. B., Smith, S. M., & Vaid, J. (Eds.). (1997). Creative thought: An investigation of conceptual structures and processes. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Weisberg, R. W. (2014). Case studies of genius: Ordinary thinking, extraordinary outcomes. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 139-165). Oxford: Wiley.

Relevant articles may often be found in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Psychology.

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Lecture 4. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: COMPUTER SIMULATION

Boden, M. A. (2004). The creative mind: Myths and mechanisms (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.Cope, D. (2014). Virtual genius. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 166-182). Oxford: Wiley.

Dartnall, T. (Ed.). (1994). Artificial intelligence and creativity: An interdisciplinary approach. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.

Hsu, F. (2002). Behind Deep Blue: Building the computer that defeated the world chess champion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Langley, P., Simon, H. A., Bradshaw, G. L., & Zythow, J. M. (1987). Scientific discovery. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Wagman, M. (2000). Scientific discovery processes in humans and computers: Theory and research in psychology and artificial intelligence. Westport, CT: Praeger.

See also current issues of the journal Artificial Intelligence and, occasionally, Leonardo.

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Lecture 5. CONTENT ANALYSIS: SUBJECTIVE & OBJECTIVE

Aronson, E. (1958). The need for achievement as measured by graphic expression. In J. W. Atkinson (Ed.), Motives in fantasy, action, and society (pp. 249-265). Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand.

Cerulo, K. A. (1988). Analyzing cultural products: A new method of measurement. Social Science Research, 17, 317-352.

Derks, P. L. (1989). Pun frequency and popularity of Shakespeare’s plays. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 7, 23-31.

Donley, R. E., & Winter, D. G. (1970). Measuring the motives of public officials at a distance: An exploratory study of American presidents. Behavioral Science, 15, 227-236.

Gottschalk, L. A., Uliana, R., & Gilbert, R. (1988). Presidential candidates and cognitive impairment measured from behavior in campaign debates. Public Administration Review, 48, 613-619.

Holsti, O. R. (1969). Content analysis for the social sciences and humanities. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Insch, G. S., Moore, J. E., & Murphy, L. D. (1997). Content analysis in leadership research: Examples, procedures, and suggestions for future use. Leadership Quarterly, 8, 1-25.

McClelland, D. C. (1975). Power: The inner experience. New York: Irvington.

Miller, N. L., Stiles, W. B. (1986). Verbal familiarity in American presidential nomination acceptance speeches and inaugural addresses (1920-1981). Social Psychology Quarterly, 49, 72-81.

Ramirez, C. E., & Suedfeld, P. (1988). Nonimmediacy scoring of archival materials: The relationship between Fidel Castro and “Che” Guevara. Political Psychology, 9, 155-164.

Sigelman, L. (2002). Two Reagans? Genre imperatives, ghostwriters, and presidential personality profiling. Political Psychology, 23, 839-851.

Simonton, D. K. (1999). William Shakespeare. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 2, pp. 559-563). San Diego: Academic Press.

Simonton, D. K. (2007). The creative imagination in Picasso’s Guernica sketches: Monotonic improvements or nonmonotonic variants? Creativity Research Journal, 19, 329-344.

Smith, C. P. (Ed.). (1992). Motivation and personality: Handbook of thematic content analysis. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Stirman, S. W., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2001). Word use in the poetry of suicidal and nonsuicidal poets. Psychosomatic Medicine, 63, 517-522.

Weisberg, R. W. (2004). On structure in the creative process: A quantitative case-study of the creation of Picasso’s Guernica. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 22, 23-54.

Winter, D. G. (2005). Things I’ve learned about personality by studying leaders at a distance. Journal of Personality, 73, 557-584.

Zullow, H. M., Oettingen, G., Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (1988). Pessimistic explanatory style in the historical record: CAVing LBJ, presidential candidates, and East versus West Berlin. American Psychologist, 43, 673-682.

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Lecture 6. PSYCHOMETRIC METHODS: IQ TESTS

Bachelor, P. A., & Michael, W. B. (1997). The structure-of-intellect model revised. In M. A. Runco (Ed.), The creativity research handbook (Vol. 1, pp. 155-182). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.Barron, F., & Harrington, D. M. (1981). Creativity, intelligence, and personality. Annual Review of Psychology, 32, 439-476.

Carroll, J. B. (1992). Cognitive abilities: The state of the art. Psychological Science, 3, 266-270.

Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2006). Intellectual competence and intelligent personality: A third way in differential psychology. Review of General Psychology, 10, 251-267.

Chauncy, H., & Hilton, T. L. (1983). Aptitude tests for the highly gifted. In R. S. Albert (Ed.), Genius and eminence (pp. 85-98). Oxford: Pergamon. (Original work published 1965)

Dennis, I., & Tapsfield, P. (Eds.). (1996). Human abilities: Their nature and measurement. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Gardner, H. (1999). Intelligence re-framed: Multiple intelligences for the 21st century. New York: Basic Books.

Garlick, D. (2002). Understanding the nature of the general factor of intelligence: The role of individual differences in neural plasticity as an explanatory mechanism. Psychological Review, 109, 116-136.

Guilford, J. P. (1967). The nature of human intelligence. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Harris, J. A. (2004). Measured intelligence, achievement, openness to experience, and creativity. Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 913-929.

Hollingworth, L. J. (1942). Children beyond 180 IQ: Origin and development. Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book.

Humphreys, L. G. (1992). Commentary: What both critics and users of ability tests need to know. Psychological Science, 3, 271-274.

Judge, T. A., Colbert, A. E., & Ilies, R. (2004). Intelligence and leadership: A quantitative review and test of theoretical propositions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89, 542-552.

Kuncel, N. R., Hezlett, S. A., Ones, D. S. (2004). Academic performance, career potential, creativity, and job performance: Can one construct predict them all? Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 86, 148-161.

McClelland, D. C. (1973). Testing for competence rather than for “intelligence.” American Psychologist, 28, 1-14.

Nyborg, H. (Ed.). (2003). The scientific study of general intelligence: Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen. Oxford: Pergamon.

Serebriakoff, V. (1985). MENSA: The society for the highly intelligent. London: Constable.

Simonton, D. K. (2003). Genius and g. In H. Nyborg (Ed.), The scientific study of general intelligence: Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen (pp. 229-245). Oxford, England: Pergamon.

Sternberg, R. J. (1999). Intelligence. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 2, pp. 81-88). San Diego: Academic Press.

Sternberg, R. J. (2004). WICS: A theory of wisdom, intelligence, and creativity synthesized. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Storfer, M. D. (1990). Intelligence and giftedness: The contributions of heredity and early environment. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Additional papers may be found in the journal Intelligence.

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Lecture 7. LONTITUDINAL STUDIES: TERMAN’S GIFTED CHILDREN

Duggan, K. A., & Friedman, H. S. (2014). Lifetime biopsychosocial trajectories of the Terman gifted children: Health, well-being, and longevity. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 488-507). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Lubinski, D., Webb, R. M., Morelock, M. J., & Benbow, C. P. (2001). Top 1 in 10,000: A 10-year follow-up of the profoundly gifted. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 718-729.

McCrae, R. R., Arenberg, D., & Costa, P. T. (1987). Declines in divergent thinking with age: Cross-sectional, longitudinal, and cross-sequential analyses. Psychology and Aging, 2, 130-136.

Muratori, M.C., Stanley, J.C., Gross, M.U.M., Ng, L., Tao, T., Ng, J., & Tao, B. (2006). Insights from SMPY’s greatest former prodigies: Drs. Terence (“Terry”) Tao and Lenhard (“Lenny”) Ng reflect on their talent development. Gifted Child Quarterly, 50, 307-324.

Oden, M. H. (1968). The fulfillment of promise: 40-year follow-up of the Terman gifted group. Genetic Psychology Monographs, 77, 3-93.

Park, G., Lubinski, D., & Benbow, C. P. (2007). Contrasting intellectual patterns predict creativity in the arts and sciences: Tracking intellectually precocious youth over 25 years. Psychological Science, 18, 948-952.

Shurkin, J. N. (1992). Terman’s kids: The groundbreaking study of how the gifted grow up. Boston: Little, Brown.

Subotnik, R. F., & Arnold, K. D. (1994). Beyond Terman: Contemporary longitudinal studies of giftedness and talent. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Subotnik, R. F., Kassan, L., Summers, E., & Wasser, A. (1994). Genius revisited: High IQ children grown up. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Terman, L. M. (1925). Mental and physical traits of a thousand gifted children. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Terman, L. M. (1970). Psychological approaches to the study of genius. In P. E. Vernon (Ed.), Creativity (pp. 25-41). Baltimore: Penguin. (Original work published 1947)

Terman, L. M., & Oden, M. H. (1947). The gifted child grows up. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Terman, L. M., & Oden, M. H. (1959). The gifted group at mid-life. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Terman, L. M., & Oden, M. H. (1976). The gifted child at mid-life. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 209-216). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1959)

Terman, L. M., & Oden, M. H. (1976). The Terman study of intellectually gifted children. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 51-67). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1959)

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Lecture 8. HISTORIOMETRIC INQUIRIES: COX’S 301 GENIUSES

Bowerman, W. G. (1947). Studies in genius. New York: Philosophical Library.

Cox, C. (1926). The early mental traits of three hundred geniuses. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Ellis, H. (1926). A study of British genius (rev. ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Robinson, A., & Simonton, D. K. (2014). Catharine Morris Cox Miles and the lives of others (1890-1984). In A. Robinson & J. L. Jolly (Eds.), A century of contributions to gifted education: Illuminating lives (pp. 101-114). London: Routledge.

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Biographical determinants of achieved eminence: A multivariate approach to the Cox data. In D. K. Simonton, Genius and creativity: Selected papers (pp. 79-94). Greenwich, CT: Ablex. (Original work published 1976)

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Historiometric studies of creative genius. In M. A. Runco (Ed.), The creativity research handbook (Vol. 1, pp. 3-28). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Simonton, D. K. (1999). Significant samples: The psychological study of eminent individuals. Psychological Methods, 4, 425-451.

Simonton, D. K. (2003). Qualitative and quantitative analyses of historical data. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 617-640.

Simonton, D. K. (2006). Presidential IQ, Openness, Intellectual Brilliance, and leadership: Estimates and correlations for 42 US chief executives. Political Psychology, 27, 511-639.

Simonton, D. K. (2009). The “other IQ”: Historiometric assessments of intelligence and related constructs. Review of General Psychology, 13, 315-326.

Simonton, D. K., & Song, A. V. (2009). Eminence, IQ, physical and mental health, and achievement domain: Cox’s 282 geniuses revisited. Psychological Science, 20, 429-434.

Song, A. V., & Simonton, D. K. (2007). Studying personality at a distance: Quantitative methods. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in personality psychology (pp. 308-321). New York: Guilford Press.

Walberg, H. S., Rasher, S. P., & Hase, K. (1983). IQ correlates with high eminence. In R. S. Albert (Ed.), Genius and eminence (pp. 52-56). Oxford: Pergamon. (Original work published 1978)

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Lecture 9. MATHEMATICAL MODELS: IQ & INFLUENCE

Epstein, R. (1990). Generativity theory and creativity. In M. A. Runco & R. S. Albert (Eds.), Theories of creativity (pp. 116-140). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Epstein, R. (1999). Generativity theory. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 1, pp. 759-766). San Diego: Academic Press.

Huber, J. C. (2000). A statistical analysis of special cases of creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 34, 203-225.

Lowe, J. W. G., & Lowe, E. D. (1982). Cultural pattern and process: A study of stylistic change in womens dress. American Anthropologist, 84, 521-544.

Mansfield, E. (1961). Technical change and the rate of imitation. Econometrica, 29, 741-766.

Marchetti, C. (1980). Society as a learning system: Discovery, invention, and innovation cycles. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 18, 267-282.

Olson, M. (1982). The rise and decline of nations. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Price, D. (1963). Little science, big science. New York: Columbia University Press.

Schilling, M. A. (2005). A “small-world” network model of cognitive insight. Creativity Research Journal, 17, 131-154.

Simonton, D. K. (1984). Creative productivity and age: A mathematical model based on a two-step cognitive process. Developmental Review, 4, 77-111.

Simonton, D. K. (1985). Intelligence and personal influence in groups: Four nonlinear models. Psychological Review, 92, 532-547.

Simonton, D. K. (1986). Stochastic models of multiple discovery. Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, B 36, 138-141.

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Creative productivity: A predictive and explanatory model of career trajectories and landmarks. Psychological Review, 104, 66-89.

Simonton, D. K. (1999). Talent and its development: An emergenic and epigenetic model. Psychological Review, 106, 435-457.

Simonton, D. K. (2010). Creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: Combinatorial models of exceptional creativity. Physics of Life Reviews, 7, 156-179.

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Lecture 10. CREATIVITY TESTS: CQ

Barron, F. (1988). Putting creativity to work. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), The nature of creativity (pp. 76-98). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Baier, J. (1999). Gender differences. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 1, pp. 753-758). San Diego: Academic Press.

Brown, R. T. (1989). Creativity: What are we to measure? In J. A. Glover, R. R. Ronning, & C. R. Reynolds (Eds.). (1989). Handbook of creativity (pp. 3-32). New York: Plenum.

Carson, S., Peterson, J. B., & Higgins, D. M. (2005). Reliability, validity, and factor structure of the Creative Achievement Questionnaire. Creativity Research Journal, 17, 37-50.

Crammond, B. (1994). The Torrance tests of creative thinking: From design through establishment of predictive validity. In R. F. Subotnik & K. D. Arnold(Eds.), Beyond Terman (pp. 229-254). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Diakidoy, I.-A. N., & Spanoudis, G. (2002). Domain specificity in creativity testing: A comparison of performance on a general divergent-thinking test and a parallel, content-specific test. Journal of Creative Behavior, 36, 41-61.

Guilford, J. P. (1970). Traits of creativity. In P. E. Vernon (Ed.), Creativity (pp. 167-188). Baltimore: Penguin. (Original work published 1959)

Hocevar, D., & Bachelor, P. (1989). A taxonomy and critique of measurents used in the study of creativity. In J. A. Glover, R. R. Ronning, & C. R. Reynolds (Eds.). (1989). Handbook of creativity (pp. 53-75). New York: Plenum.

Keating, D. P. (1983). The creative potential of mathematically precocious boys. In R. S. Albert (Ed.), Genius and eminence (pp. 128-138). Oxford: Pergamon. (Original work published 1976)

Michael, W. B. (1999). Guilford’s view. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 1, pp. 785-797). San Diego: Academic Press.

Nicholls, J. G. (1983). Creativity in the person who will never produce anything original or useful. In R. S. Albert (Ed.), Genius and eminence (pp. 265-279). Oxford: Pergamon. (Original work published 1972)

O’Quin, K., & Derks, P. (1997). Humor and creativity: A review of the empirical literature. In M. A. Runco (Ed.), The creativity research handbook (Vol. 1, pp. 227-256). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Plucker, J. A., & Makel, M. C. (2010). Assessment of creativity. In J. C. Kaufman & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of creativity (pp. 48-73). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Runco, M. (2010). Divergent thinking, creativity, and ideation. In J. C. Kaufman & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of creativity (pp. 413-446). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Simonton, D. K. (2002). Creativity. In C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Eds.), The handbook of positive psychology (pp. 189-201). New York: Oxford University Press.

Simonton, D. K. (2003). Creativity assessment. In R. Fernández-Ballesteros (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychological assessment (Vol. 1, pp. 276-280). London: Sage Publications.

Smith, G. J. W., & Amnér, G. (1997). Creativity and perception. In M. A. Runco (Ed.), The creativity research handbook (Vol. 1, pp. 67-82). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Torrance, E. P. (1988). The nature of creativity as manifest in its testing. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), The nature of creativity (pp. 43-75). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wallach, M. A. (1983). What do tests tell us about talents? In R. S. Albert (Ed.), Genius and eminence (pp. 99-113). Oxford: Pergamon. (Original work published 1977)

Wallach, M. A., & Kogan, N. (1970). A new look at the creativity-intelligence distinction. In P. E. Vernon (Ed.), Creativity (pp. 235-256). Baltimore: Penguin. (Original work published 1965)

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Lecture 11. PERSONALITY: INTERVIEW & ASSESSMENT

Feist, G. J. (1999). The influence of personality and artistic and scientific creativity. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of creativity (pp. 273-296). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Feist, G. J. (2014). Psychometric studies of scientific talent and eminence. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 62-86). Oxford: Wiley.

Feist, G. J., & Barron, F. X. (2003). Predicting creativity from early to late adulthood: Intellect, potential, and personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 37, 62-88.

McCrae, R. R., & Greenberg, D. M. (2014). Openness to experience. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 222-243). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Nakamura, J., & Fajans, J. (2014). Interviewing highly eminent creators. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 33-61). Oxford: Wiley.

Roe, A. (1953). The making of a scientist. New York: Dodd, Mead.

Simonton, D. K. (2009). Varieties of (scientific) creativity: A hierarchical model of disposition, development, and achievement. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 441-452.

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Lecture 12. COGNITION: INTEGRATIVE COMPLEXITY

Gruenfeld, D. H., & Preston, J. (2000). Upending the status quo: Cognitive complexity in U.S. Supreme Court Justices who overturn legal precedent. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1013-1022.

Porter, C. A., & Suedfeld, P. (1981). Integrative complexity in the correspondence of literary figures: Effects of personal and societal stress. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 321-330.

Suedfeld, P., & Bluck, S. (1988). Changes in integrative complexity prior to surprise attacks. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 32, 626-635.

Suedfeld, P., & Guttieri, K., & Tetlock, P. E. (2003). Assessing integrative complexity at a distance: Archival analyses of thinking and decision making. In J. M. Post (Ed.), The psychological assessment of political leaders: With profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton (pp. 246-270). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Suedfeld, P., & Leighton, D. C. (2002). Early communications in the war against terrorism: An integrative complexity analysis. Political Psychology, 23, 585-599.

Suedfeld, P., & Piedrahita, L. E. (1984). Intimations of mortality: Integrative simplification as a predictor of death. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 848-852.

Suedfeld, P. (2010). The cognitive processing of politics and politicians: Archival studies of conceptual and integrative complexity. Journal of Personality, 78, 1669-1702.

Tetlock, P. E. (1981). Personality and isolationism: Content analysis of senatorial speeches. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 737-743.

Tetlock, P. E. (1981). Pre- to postelection shifts in presidential rhetoric: Impression management or cognitive adjustment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 207-212.

Tetlock, P. E. (1983). Cognitive style and political ideology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 118-126.

Tetlock, P. E. (1984). Cognitive style and political belief systems in the British House of Commons. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 365-375.

Tetlock, P. E. (1985). Integrative complexity of American and Soviet foreign policy rhetoric: A time-series analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 1565-1585.

Tetlock, P. E., Bernzweig, J., & Gallant, J. L. (1985). Supreme Court decision making: Cognitive style as a predictor of ideological consistency of voting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48, 1227-1239.

Tetlock, P. E., & Boettger, R. (1989). Cognitive and rhetorical styles of traditionalist and reformist Soviet politicians: A content analysis study. Political Psychology, 10, 209-232.

Tetlock, P. E., Hannum, K. A., & Micheletti, P. M. (1984). Stability and change in the complexity of senatorial debate: Testing the cognitive versus rhetorical style hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 979-990.

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Lecture 13. MOTIVATION: ACHIEVEMENT, POWER, & AFFILIATION

Amabile, T. M. (1996). Creativity in context. Boulder, CO: Westview.Bradburn, N. M., & Berlew, D. E. (1961). Need for achievement and English economic growth. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 10, 8-20.

Collins, M. A., & Amabile, T. M. (1999). Motivation and creativity. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of creativity (pp. 297-312). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cortés, J. B. (1960). The achievement motive in the Spanish economy between the 13th and 18th centuries. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 9, 144-163.

deCharms, R., & Moeller, G. H. (1962). Values expressed in American children’s readers: 1800-1950. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 64, 136-142.

Duckworth, A. L., Peterson, C., Matthews, M. D., & Kelly, D. R. (2007). GRIT: Perseverence and passion for long-term goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 1087-1101.

Ferguson, M. R., & Barth, J. (2002). Governors in the legislative arena: The importance of personality in shaping success. Political Psychology, 23, 787-808,

Finison, L. J. (1976). The application of McClelland’s national development model to recent data. Journal of Social Psychology, 98, 55-59.

Fodor, E. M. (1990). The power motive and creativity of solutions to an engineering problem. Journal of Research in Personality, 24, 338-354.

Frey, R. S. (1984). Does n-Achievement cause economic development? A cross-lagged panel analysis of the McClelland thesis. Journal of Social Psychology, 122, 67-70.

Mazur, A., & Rosa, E. (1977). An empirical test of McClelland’s “Achieving Society” theory. Social Forces, 55, 769-774.

McClelland, D. C. (1961). The achieving society. New York: Van Nostrand.

Winter, D. G. (1973). The power motive. New York: Free Press.

Winter, D. G. (1980). An exploratory study of the motives of southern African political leaders measured at a distance. Political Psychology, 2, 75-85.

Winter, D. G. (2003). Measuring the motives of political actors at a distance. In J. M. Post (Ed.), The psychological assessment of political leaders: With profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton (pp. 153-177). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Winter, D. G., & Carlson, D. G. (1988). Using motive scores in the psychobiographical study of an individual: The case of Richard Nixon. Journal of Personality, 56, 75-103.

Winter, D. G., & Stewart, A. S. (1977). Content analysis as a technique for assessing political leaders. In M. G. Hermann (Ed.), The psychological examination of political leaders (pp. 27-61). New York: Free Press.

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Lecture 14. MADNESS VS. MENTAL HEALTH

Carson, S. (2014). Cognitive disinhibition, creativity, and psychopathology. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 198-221). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Damian, R. I., & Simonton, D. K. (2015). Psychopathology, adversity, and creativity: Diversifying experiences in the development of eminent African-Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 623-636.

Kaufman, J. C. (Ed.). (2014). Creativity and mental illness. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.Ko, Y., & Kim, J. (2008). Scientific geniuses’ psychopathology as a moderator in the relation between creative contribution types and eminence. Creativity Research Journal, 20, 251- 261.

Lester, D. (1999). Suicide. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 2, pp. 585-589). San Diego: Academic Press.

Ludwig, A. M. (1995). The price of greatness: Resolving the creativity and madness controversy. New York: Guilford Press.

Nettle, D. (2006). Schizotypy and mental health amongst poets, visual artists, and mathematicians. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 876-890.

Schultz, W. T. (2014). The psychobiography of genius. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 20-32). Oxford: Wiley.

Simonton, D. K. (1998). Mad King George: The impact of personal and political stress on mental and physical health. Journal of Personality, 66, 443-466.

Simonton, D. K. (2010). So you want to become a creative genius? You must be crazy! In D. Cropley, J. Kaufman, A. Cropley, & M. Runco (Eds.), The dark side of creativity (pp. 218-234). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Simonton, D. K. (2014). The mad (creative) genius: What do we know after a century of historiometric research? In J. C. Kaufman (Ed.), Creativity and mental illness (pp. 25-41). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Simonton, D. K. (2014). The mad-genius paradox: Can creative people be more mentally healthy but highly creative people more mentally ill? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 470-480.

Simonton, D. K. (2014). More method in the mad-genius controversy: A historiometric study of 204 historic creators. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 8, 53-61.

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Lecture 15. AGE & ACHIEVEMENT: LONGITUDINAL CHANGES

Adams-Price, C. E. (Ed.). (1998). Creativity and successful aging: Theoretical and empirical approaches. New York: Springer.Galenson, D. W. (2005). Old masters and young geniuses: The two life cycles of artistic creativity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Jones, B. F., Reedy, E.J., & Weinberg, B. A. (2014). Age and scientific genius. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 422-450). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Kozbelt, A. (2014). Musical creativity over the lifespan. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 451-472). Oxford, UK: Wiley.Lehman, H. C. (1953). Age and achievement. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Lindauer, M. S. (2003). Aging, creativity, and art: A positive perspective on late-life development. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

McCrae, R. R. (1999). Consistency of creativity across the life span. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 1, pp. 361-366). San Diego: Academic Press.

McKay, A. S., & Kaufman, J. C. (2014). Literary geniuses: Their life, work, and death. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 473-487). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Roring, R. W., & Charness, N. (2007). A multilevel model analysis of expertise in chess across the life span. Psychology and Aging, 22, 291-299.

Simonton, D. K. (1988). Age and outstanding achievement: What do we know after a century of research? Psychological Bulletin, 104, 251-267.

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Creative productivity: A predictive and explanatory model of career trajectories and landmarks. Psychological Review, 104, 66-89.

Simonton, D. K. (2007). Cinema composers: Career trajectories for creative productivity in film music. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 1, 160-169.

Simonton, D. K. (2007). Creative life cycles in literature: Poets versus novelists or conceptualists versus experimentalists? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 1, 133-139.

Simonton, D. K. (2015). Thomas Alva Edison’s creative career: The multilayered trajectory of trials, errors, failures, and triumphs. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 9, 2-14.

Stroebe, W. (2000). The graying of academia: Will it reduce scientific productivity? American Psychologist, 65, 660-673.

Wray, K. B. (2003). Is science really a young man’s game? Social Studies of Science, 33, 137-149.

Wray, K. B. (2004). An examination of the contributions of young scientists in new fields. Scientometrics, 61, 117-128.

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Lecture 16. LIFETIME OUTPUT: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Cole, J., & Cole, S. (1972). The Ortega hypothesis. Science, 178, 368-375.Davis, R. A. (1987). Creativity in neurological publications. Neurosurgery, 20, 652-663

Dennis, W. (1954). Bibliographies of eminent scientists. Scientific Monthly, 79, 180-183.

Dennis, W. (1954). Predicting scientific productivity in later maturity from records of earlier decades. Journal of Gerontology, 9, 465-467.

Dennis, W. (1954). Productivity among American psychologists. American Psychologist, 9, 191-194.

Dennis, W. (1955). Variations in productivity among creative workers. Scientific Monthly, 80, 277-278.

Feist, G. J. (1997). Quantity, quality, and depth of research as influences on scientific eminence: Is quantity most important? Creativity Research Journal, 10, 325-335.

Huber, J. C. (2000). A statistical analysis of special cases of creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 34, 203-225.

Kyvik, S. (1990). Motherhood and scientific productivity. Social Studies of Science, 20, 149-160.

Lee, J. D., Vicente, K. J., Cassano, A., & Shearer, A. (2003). Can scientific impact be judged prospectively? A bibliometric test of Simonton’s model of creative productivity. Scientometrics, 56, 223-232.

Lotka, A. J. (1926). The frequency distribution of scientific productivity. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 16, 317-323.

Price, D. (1963). Big science, little science. New York: Columbia University Press.

Root-Bernstein, R. S., Bernstein, M., & Garnier, H. (1993). Identification of scientists making long-term, high-impact contributions, with notes on their methods of working. Creativity Research Journal, 6, 329-343.

Root-Bernstein, R. S., Bernstein, M., & Garnier, H. (1995). Correlations between avocations, scientific style, work habits, and professional impact of scientists. Creativity Research Journal, 8, 115-137.

Rushton, J. P., Murray, H. G., & Paunonen, S. V. (1987). Personality characteristics associated with high research productivity. In D. N. Jackson & J. P. Rushton (Eds.), Scientific excellence: Origins and assessment (pp. 129-148). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Shockley, W. (1957). On the statistics of individual variations of productivity in research laboratories. Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 45, 279-290.

Simonton, D. K. (1977). Eminence, creativity, and geographic marginality: A recursive structural equation model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 805-816.

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Creative productivity: A predictive and explanatory model of career trajectories and landmarks. Psychological Review, 104, 66-89.

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Emergence and realization of genius: The lives and works of 120 classical composers. In D. K. Simonton, Genius and creativity: Selected papers (pp. 95-124). Greenwich, CT: Ablex. (Original work published 1991)

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Career landmarks in science: Individual differences and interdisciplinary contrasts. In D. K. Simonton, Genius and creativity: Selected papers (pp. 231-264). Greenwich, CT: Ablex. (Original work published 1991)

Simonton, D. K. (1999). Matthew effects. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 2, pp. 185-192). San Diego: Academic Press.

Walberg, H. J., & Arian, G. (1999). Distribution of creativity. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 1, pp. 573-576). San Diego: Academic Press.

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Lecture 17. EXPERIMENTAL AESTHETICS

Amabile, T. M. (1982). Social psychology of creativity: A consensual assessment technique. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 997-1013.Berlyne, D. E. (Ed.). (1974). Studies in the new experimental aesthetics. Washington, DC: Hemisphere.

Berlyne, D. E. (1976). The new experimental aesthetics and the problem of classifying works of art. Scientific Aesthetics/Sciences de l’Art, 1, 85-106.

Boselie, R. (1992). The Golden Section has no special aesthetic attractivity! Empirical Studies of the Arts, 10, 1-18.

Cupchik, G. C. (1986). A decade after Berlyne: New directions in experimental aesthetics. Poetics, 15, 345-369.

Day, H. I. (Ed.). (1981). Advances in intrinsic motivation and aesthetics. New York: Plenum.

Francès, R. (1976). Comparative effects of six collative variables on interest and preference in adults of different educational levels. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 33, 62-79.

Heyduk, R. G. (1975). Rated preference for musical compositions as it relates to complexity and exposure frequency. Perception and Psychophysics, 17, 84-91.

Kammann, R. (1966). Verbal complexity and preferences in poetry. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 5, 536-540.

Konecni, V. J. (2005). The “golden section” as aesthetic idea and empirical fact. Visual Arts Research, 30, 75-86.

Karno, M., & Konecni, V. J. (1992). The effects of structural interventions in the first movement of Mozart’s Symphony in G Minor K. 550 on aesthetic preference. Music Perception, 10, 63-72.

McManus, I. C., Cheema, B., & Stoker, J. (1993). The aesthetics of composition: A study of Mondrian. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 11, 83-94.

Martindale, A. E., & Martindale, C. (1988). Metaphorical equivalence of elements and temperaments: Empirical studies of Bachelard’s theory of imagination. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 836-848.

Martindale, C., & Moore, K. (1989). Relationship of musical preference to collative, ecological, and psychophysical variables. Music Perception, 6, 431-446.

Steck, L., & Machotka, P. (1975). Preference for musical complexity: Effects of context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 104, 170-174.

Vitz, P. C. (1964). Preferences for rates of information presented by sequences of tones. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 176-183.

See also articles in Empirical Studies of the Arts and the now-defunct Scientific Aesthetics/Sciences de l’Art, as well as Leonardo and Music Perception.

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Lecture 18. COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF MASTERWORKS

Brook, B. S. (1969). Style and content analysis in music: The simplified “Plaine and Easie Code.” In G. Gerbner, O. R. Holsti, K. Krippendorff, W. J. Paisley, and P. J. Stone (Eds.), The analysis of communication content (pp. 287-296). New York: Wiley.Holmes, D. (1994). Authorship attribution. Computers and the Humanities, 10, 111-127.

Kozbelt, A., & Burger-Pianko, Z. (2007).Words, music, and other measures: Predicting the repertoire popularity of 597 Schubert lieder. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 1, 191-203.

Longuet-Higgins, H. C. (1987). Mental processes: Studies in cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.

Martindale, C. (1990). The clockwork muse: The predictability of artistic styles. New York: Basic Books.

Paisley, W. J. (1964). Identifying the unknown communicator in painting, literature and music: The significance of minor encoding habits. Journal of Communication, 14, 219-237.

Simonton, D. K. (1980). Thematic fame and melodic originality: A multivariate computer-content analysis. Journal of Personality, 48, 206-219.

Simonton, D. K. (1984). Melodic structure and note transition probabilities: A content analysis of 15,618 classical themes. Psychology of Music, 12, 3-16.

Simonton, D. K. (1986). Aesthetic success in classical music: A computer analysis of 1935 compositions. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 4, 1-17.

Simonton, D. K. (1987). Musical aesthetics and creativity in Beethoven: A computer analysis of 105 compositions. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 5, 87-104.

Simonton, D. K. (1989). Shakespeare’s sonnets: A case of and for single-case historiometry. Journal of Personality, 57, 695-721.

Simonton, D. K. (1994). Computer content analysis of melodic structure: Classical composers and their compositions. Psychology of Music, 22, 31-43.

Simonton, D. K. (1995). Drawing inferences from symphonic programs: Musical attributes versus listener attributions. Music Perception, 12, 307-322.

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Thematic fame, melodic originality, and musical zeitgeist: A biographical and transhistorical content analysis. In D. K. Simonton, Genius and creativity: Selected papers (pp. 263-282). Greenwich, CT: Ablex. (Original work published 1980)

Simonton, D. K. (1997). The swan-song phenomenon: Last-works effects for 172 classical composers. In D. K. Simonton, Genius and creativity: Selected papers (pp. 217-230). Greenwich, CT: Ablex. (Original work published 1989)

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Lexical choices and aesthetic success: A computer content analysis of 154 Shakespeare sonnets. In D. K. Simonton, Genius and creativity: Selected papers (pp. 283-306). Greenwich, CT: Ablex. (Original work published 1990)

Simonton, D. K. (2001). Emotion and composition in classical music: Historiometric perspectives. In P. Juslin & J. Sloboda (Eds.), Music and emotion: Theory and research (pp. 205-222). New York: Oxford University Press.

Simonton, D. K. (2004). Group artistic creativity: Creative clusters and cinematic success in 1,327 feature films. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 1494-1520.

Simonton, D. K. (2015). Numerical odds and evens in Beethoven’s nine symphonies: Can a computer really tell the difference? Empirical Studies of the Arts, 33, 18-35.

Simonton, D. K., Taylor, K., & Cassandro, V. (1998). The creative genius of William Shakespeare: Historiometric analyses of his plays and sonnets. In A. Steptoe (Ed.), Genius and the mind: Studies of creativity and temperament in the historical record (pp. 167-192). New York: Oxford University Press.

See also articles found on occasion in Computers and the Humanities, Psychology of Music, Psychomusicology, Journal of Research in Music Education, Poetics, and Empirical Studies of the Arts.

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Lecture 19. DEVELOPMENT I: CHILD PRODIGIES & THE GIFTED

Campitelli, G., Gobet, F., & Bilalic, M.. (2014). Cognitive processes and development of chess genius: An integrative approach. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 350-374). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Ericsson, K. A. (2014). Creative genius: A view from the expert-performance approach. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 321-349). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Hermelin, B. (2001). Bright splinters of the mind: A personal story of research with autistic savants. Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley.

Howard, R. W. (2011). Does high-level intellectual performance depend on practice alone? Debunking the Polgar sisters case. Cognitive Development, 26, 196-202.

Ilies, R., Gerhardt, M. W., & Le, H. (2004). Individual differences in leadership emergence: Integrating meta-analytic findings and behavioral genetics estimates. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 12, 207-219.

Johnson, W., & Bouchard, T. J., Jr. (2014). Genetics of intellectual and personality traits associated with creative genius: Could geniuses be Cosmobian Dragon Kings? In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 269-296). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Kaufman, S. B., & Kaufman, J. C. (2007). Ten years to expertise, many more to greatness: An investigation of modern writers. Journal of Creative Behavior, 41, 114-124.

Kell, H. J., & Lubinski, D. (2014). The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth at maturity: Insights into elements of genius. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 397-421). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Selfe, L. (2011). Nadia revisited: A longitudinal study of an autistic savant. New York: Psychology Press.

Simonton, D. K. (2000). Genius and giftedness: Same or different? In K. A. Heller, F. J. Mönks, R. J. Sternberg, & R. F. Subotnik (Eds.), International handbook of research and development of giftedness and talent (2nd ed., pp. 111-121). Terrytown, NY: Pergamon.

Simonton, D. K. (2001). Talent development as a multidimensional, multiplicative, and dynamic process. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 39-43.

Simonton, D. K. (2005). Giftedness and genetics: The emergenic-epigenetic model and its implications. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 28, 270-286.

Simonton, D. K. (2014). Creative performance, expertise acquisition, individual-differences, and developmental antecedents: An integrative research agenda. Intelligence, 45, 66-73.

Treffert, D. A. (2010). Islands of genius: The bountiful mind of the autistic, acquired, and sudden savant. London, England: Jessica Kingsley.

Winner, E. (1996). Gifted children: Myths and realities. New York: BasicBooks.

Winner, E. (2014). Child prodigies and adult genius: A weak link. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 297-320). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Additional readings: Roeper Review: A Journal on Gifted Education, Gifted Child Quarterly, and Journal of Creative Behavior.

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Lecture 20. DEVELOPMENT II: FAMILY ENVIRONMENT

Damian, R. I., & Simonton, D. K. (2014). Diversifying experiences in the development of genius and their impact on creative cognition. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 375-393). Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Downey, D. B. (2001). Number of siblings and intellectual development: The resource dilution explanation. American Psychologist, 56, 497-504.

Rothenberg, A., & Wyshak, G. (2004). Family background and genius. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 49, 185-191.

Simonton, D. K. (2008). Bilingualism and creativity. In J. Altarriba & R. R. Heredia (Eds.), An introduction to bilingualism: Principles and processes (pp. 147-166). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Simonton, D. K. (2008). Gender differences in birth order and family size among 186 eminent psychologists. Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology, 1, 15-22.

Simonton, D. K. (2008). Scientific talent, training, and performance: Intellect, personality, and genetic endowment. Review of General Psychology, 12, 28-46.

Steinberg, B. S. (2001). The making of female presidents and prime ministers: The impact of birth order, sex of siblings, and father-daughter dynamics. Political Psychology, 22, 89-110.

Sulloway, F. J. (1996). Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives. New York: Pantheon.

Sulloway, F. J. (2014). Openness to scientific innovation. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 546-563). Oxford: Wiley.
Von Károlyi, C., Winner, E., Gray, W., & Sherman, G. F. (2003). Dyslexia linked to talent: Global visual-spatial ability. Brain and Language, 85, 427-431.

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Lecture 21. DEVELOPMENT III: EDUCATION

Balchin, T., Hymer, B., & Matthews, D. T. (Eds.). (2009). The Routledge international companion to gifted education. London: Routledge.Beghetto, R. A., & Kaufman, J. C. (Eds.). (2010). Nurturing creativity in the classroom. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Bishop, W. E. (1976). Characteristics of teachers judged successful by intellectually gifted, high achieving high school students. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 141-152). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1975)

Cropley, A. J. (1997). Fostering creativity in the classroom: General principles. In M. A. Runco (Ed.), The creativity research handbook (Vol. 1, pp. 83-114). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Cropley, A. J. (1999). Education. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 1, pp. 629-642). San Diego: Academic Press.

Dogan, M. (1999). Marginality. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 2, pp. 179-184). San Diego: Academic Press.

Gallagher, J. J (1976). The gifted child in elementary school. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 119-140). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1959)

Kuncel, N. R., Hezlett, S. A., & Ones, D. S. (2004). Academic performance, career potential, creativity, and job performance: Can one construct predict them all? Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 86, 148-161.

Parnes, S. J. (1970). Education and creativity. In P. E. Vernon (Ed.), Creativity (pp. 341-354). Baltimore: Penguin. (Original work published 1963)

Reynolds, M. C., Birch, J. W., & Tuseth, A. A. (1976). Research on early admissions. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 165-177). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1962)

Ripple, R. E. (1999). Teaching creativity. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 2, pp. 629-638). San Diego: Academic Press.

Runco, M. A., & Charles, R. E. (1997). Developmental trends in creative potential and creative performance. In M. A. Runco (Ed.), The creativity research handbook (Vol. 1, pp. 115-152). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Simonton, D. K. (2000). Creative development as acquired expertise: Theoretical issues and an empirical test. Developmental Review, 20, 283-318.

Stanley, J. C. (1976). Accelerating the educational progress of intellectually gifted children. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 179-196). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1973)

Sumption, M. R., Norris, D., & Terman, L. M. (1976). Special education for the gifted child. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 153-164). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1950)

Torrance, E. P. (1970). Causes for concern. In P. E. Vernon (Ed.), Creativity (pp. 355-370). Baltimore: Penguin. (Original work published 1962)

Weisberg, R. W. (1999). Creativity and knowledge: A challenge to theories. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of creativity (pp. 226-250). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zuckerman, H. (1983). The scientific elite: Nobel laureates’ mutual influences. In R. S. Albert (Ed.), Genius and eminence (pp. 241-252). Oxford: Pergamon. (Original work published 1979)

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Lecture 22. DEVELOPMENT IV: SOCIAL CONTEXT

Blaha, S. (2002). The life cycle of civilizations. Auburn, NH: Pingree-Hill.Hellmanzik, C. (2014). Prominent modern artists: Determinants of creativity. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 564-585). Oxford: Wiley.

Kroeber, A. (1944). Configurations of culture growth. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Leung, A. K., Maddux, W. W., Galinsky, A. D., & Chiu, C. (2008). Multicultural experience enhances creativity: The when and how. American Psychologist, 63, 169-181.

Murray, C. (2003). Human accomplishment: The pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950. New York: HarperCollins.

Murray, C. (2014). Genius in world civilization. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley handbook of genius (pp. 586-608). Oxford: Wiley.

Nemeth, C. J., Personnaz, B., Personnaz, M., & Goncalo, J. A. (2004). The liberating role of conflict in group creativity: A study in two countries. European Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 365-374.

Norling, B. (1970). Timeless problems in history. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame Press.

Simonton, D. K. (1984). Generational time-series analysis: A paradigm for studying sociocultural influences. In K. Gergen & M. Gergen (Eds.), Historical social psychology (pp. 139-155). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Simonton, D. K. (1992). Gender and genius in Japan: Feminine eminence in masculine culture. Sex Roles, 27, 101-119.

Simonton, D. K. (1992). The social context of career success and course for 2,026 scientists and inventors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 452-463.

Simonton, D. K. (1996). Individual genius and cultural configurations: The case of Japanese civilization. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 27, 354-375.

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Sociocultural context of individual creativity: A transhistorical time-series analysis. In D. K. Simonton, Genius and creativity: Selected papers (pp. 3-28). Greenwich, CT: Ablex. (Original work published 1975)

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Galtonian genius, Kroeberian configurations, and emulation: A generational time-series analysis of Chinese civilization. In D. K. Simonton, Genius and creativity: Selected papers (pp. 55-78). Greenwich, CT: Ablex. (Original work published 1988)

Simonton, D. K. (2003). Creative cultures, nations, and civilizations: Strategies and results. In P. B. Paulus & B. A. Nijstad (Eds.), Group creativity: Innovation through collaboration (pp. 304-328). New York: Oxford University Press.

Simonton, D. K. (2003). Kroeber’s cultural configurations, Sorokin’s culture mentalities, and generational time-series analysis: A quantitative paradigm for the comparative study of civilizations. Comparative Civilizations Review, 49, 96-108.

Simonton, D. K. (2004). Creative clusters, political fragmentation, and cultural heterogeneity: An investigative journey though civilizations East and West. In P. Bernholz & R. Vaubel (Eds.), Political competition, innovation and growth in the history of Asian civilizations (pp. 39-56). Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar.

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Lecture 23. GENIUS VS. ZEITGEIST I: ART

Martindale, C. (1990). The clockwork muse: The predictability of artistic styles. New York: Basic Books.

Simonton, D. K. (1997). Artistic creativity and interpersonal relationships across and within generations. In D. K. Simonton, Genius and creativity: Selected papers (pp. 29-54). Greenwich, CT: Ablex. (Original work published 1984)

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Winner, E. (1982). Invented worlds: The psychology of the arts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Lecture 24. GENIUS VS. ZEITGEIST II: LITERATURE

Helson, R. (1978). The imaginative process in children’s literature: A quantitative approach. Poetics, 7, 135-153.Helson, R. (1980). Challenger and upholder syndromes in critics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 38, 825-838.

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Martindale, C. (1975). Romantic progression: The psychology of literary history. Washington, DC: Hemisphere.

Martindale, C. (1984). The evolution of aesthetic taste. In K. J. Gergen & M. M. Gergen (Eds.), Historical social psychology (pp. 347-370). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Martindale, C. (1986). Aesthetic evolution. Poetics, 15, 439-473.

Martindale, C. (Ed.). (1988). Psychological approaches to the study of literary narratives. Hamburg: Buske.

Martindale, C. (1990). The clockwork muse: The predictability of artistic styles. New York: Basic Books.

Martindale, C. (1999). History and creativity. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 1, pp. 823-830). San Diego: Academic Press.

Martindale, C. (2009). The evolution and end of art as Hegelian tragedy. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 27, 133-140.

Niu, W., & Kaufman, J. C. (2005). Creativity in troubled times: Factors associated with recognitions of Chinese literary creativity in the 20th century. Journal of Creative Behavior, 39, 57-67.

Piirto, J. (1999). Poetry. In M. A. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (Vol. 2, pp. 409-415). San Diego: Academic Press.

Rosenberg, S. (1989). A study of personality in literary autobiography: An analysis of Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 416-430.

Rosenberg, S., & Jones, R. A. (1972). A method for investigating and representing a person’s implicit personality theory: Theodore Dreiser’s view of people. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 22, 372-386.

Schmidt, S. J. (Ed.). (1981). Empirical studies in literature. Poetics, 10, 317-336.

Simonton, D. K. (2004). Thematic content and political context in Shakespeare’s dramatic output, with implications for authorship and chronology controversies. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 22, 201-213.

Sorokin, P. A. (1957). Social and cultural dynamics: A study of change in major systems of art, truth, ethics, law and social relationships (rev. & abridged). Boston: Porter Sargent.