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Scott Barry Kaufman

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Positive Psychology

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Cognitive Psychology

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#113

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According to Wikipedia, Scott Barry Kaufman is an American cognitive scientist, author, podcaster, coach, and popular science writer. His writing and research focuses on intelligence, creativity, and human potential. Most media attention has focused on Kaufman's attempt to redefine intelligence. Kaufman is founder and director of the Center for Human Potential and has taught courses at Columbia, NYU, the University of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. He is one of the top 20 most cited scientists studying intelligence, and is among the top 1% most cited scientists in the world. In 2015, he was named one of "50 groundbreaking scientists who are changing the way we see the world" by Business Insider,.

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Scott Barry Kaufman's Published Works

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Published Works

Conceptions of Giftedness (2005) (676)
Implicit learning as an ability (2010) (434)
The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence (2019) (408)
Openness to Experience and Intellect Differentially Predict Creative Achievement in the Arts and Sciences. (2016) (355)
Sex differences in mental rotation and spatial visualization ability: Can they be accounted for by differences in working memory capacity? (2007) (298)
Ode to positive constructive daydreaming (2013) (185)
Are cognitive g and academic achievement g one and the same g? An exploration on the Woodcock–Johnson and Kaufman tests (2012) (168)
Personality and complex brain networks: The role of openness to experience in default network efficiency (2015) (156)
Intact implicit learning in autism spectrum conditions (2010) (151)
Opening up Openness to Experience: A Four-Factor Model and Relations to Creative Achievement in the Arts and Sciences. (2013) (149)
The development of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S): A multifactorial measure for a complex emotion (2018) (106)
The Light vs. Dark Triad of Personality: Contrasting Two Very Different Profiles of Human Nature (2019) (103)
Associative learning predicts intelligence above and beyond working memory and processing speed (2009) (98)
Unique Associations Between Big Five Personality Aspects and Multiple Dimensions of Well-Being. (2018) (92)
The Effects of Mood, Cognitive Style, and Cognitive Ability on Implicit Learning. (2010) (76)
What lies beneath the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen : varied relations with the Big Five (2013) (72)
Ten Years to Expertise, Many More to Greatness: An Investigation of Modern Writers (2007) (69)
Finding Creative Potential on Intelligence Tests via Divergent Production (2011) (59)
The philosophy of creativity : new essays (2014) (53)
Clinical Correlates of Vulnerable and Grandiose Narcissism: A Personality Perspective. (2020) (51)
Openness/intellect: The core of the creative personality (2017) (50)
The Psychology of Creative Writing (2009) (50)
Contemporary Theories of Intelligence (2013) (43)
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity: Evolutionary Approaches to Creativity (2011) (42)
The Role of Creativity and Humor in Human Mate Selection (2007) (42)
The role of passion and persistence in creativity. (2017) (38)
Self-Actualizing People in the 21st Century: Integration With Contemporary Theory and Research on Personality and Well-Being (2018) (32)
Creativity and schizophrenia spectrum disorders across the arts and sciences (2014) (31)
Creative Activity, Personality, Mental Illness, and Short-Term Mating Success (2012) (31)
The Higher the Score, the Darker the Core: The Nonlinear Association Between Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism (2018) (28)
General intelligence predicts reasoning ability even for evolutionarily familiar content (2011) (28)
The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence: Intelligence and the Cognitive Unconscious (2011) (27)
Mating Intelligence Unleashed: The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love (2013) (26)
Who Finds Bill Gates Sexy? Creative Mate Preferences as a Function of Cognitive Ability, Personality, and Creative Achievement (2016) (25)
Faith in Intuition Is Associated With Decreased Latent Inhibition in a Sample of High-Achieving Adolescents (2009) (25)
The structure of intuitive abilities and their relationships with intelligence and Openness to Experience (2018) (21)
The state of positive education (2017) (21)
World-class expertise: a developmental model. (2017) (18)
Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America (2012) (17)
Creative Giftedness: Beginnings, Developments, and Future Promises (2009) (17)
Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties. (2018) (16)
Beyond general intelligence: The dual-process theory of human intelligence (2009) (16)
Self-Perceived Mating Intelligence Predicts Sexual Behavior in College Students: Empirical Validation of a Theoretical Construct (2010) (15)
Cultivating the social–emotional imagination in gifted education: insights from educational neuroscience (2016) (15)
The Personalities of Creative Writers (2009) (13)
The complexity of greatness : beyond talent or practice (2013) (13)
Introducing THE PHILOSOPHY OF CREATIVITY (2014) (12)
The Psychology of Creative Writing: Frontmatter (2009) (12)
Trends in intelligence research (2012) (12)
Predicting Preferences for Sex Acts: Which Traits Matter Most, and Why? (2011) (12)
Investigating the role of domain general mechanisms in the acquisition of domain specific expertise (2007) (11)
Theories and Conceptions of Giftedness (2018) (11)
Applying the Theory of Successful Intelligence to Psychotherapy Training and Practice (2004) (11)
Light and dark trait subtypes of human personality – A multi-study person-centered approach (2020) (10)
Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank: Advances in Cutting Edge Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Neuromodulation, Neuroethics, Pain, Interventional Psychiatry, Epilepsy, and Traumatic Brain Injury (2022) (9)
Giftedness in the Euro-American Culture (2020) (9)
Healthy Selfishness and Pathological Altruism: Measuring Two Paradoxical Forms of Selfishness (2020) (9)
How Social-Emotional Imagination Facilitates Deep Learning and Creativity in the Classroom (2015) (8)
Imagination Is the Seed of Creativity (2019) (8)
The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence: Mating Intelligence (2011) (7)
The Psychology of Creative Writing: The Tears of a Clown: Understanding Comedy Writers (2009) (6)
Differences in brain activity patterns during creative idea generation between eminent and non-eminent thinkers (2020) (6)
A proposed integration of the expert performance and individual differences approaches to the study of elite performance (2014) (6)
The Genius Portfolio: How Do Poets Earn Their Creative Reputations from Multiple Products? (2008) (5)
The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: an individual data meta-analysis. (2021) (5)
Creativity and Mental Illness: The evolutionary genetics of the creativity–psychosis connection (2014) (4)
11 Creativity and Aging : What We Can Make With What We Have Left (2016) (4)
Differences in brain morphometry associated with creative performance in high- and average-creative achievers (2020) (4)
The Philosophy of Creativity (2014) (3)
Review of Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation. (2007) (3)
Grounding Creative Giftedness in the Body (2013) (3)
How to Cultivate Creativity (2016) (2)
Mating Intelligence (2019) (2)
The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence: Preface (2011) (2)
Corrigendum to “The effects of mood, cognitive style, and cognitive ability on implicit learning” [Learn Individ Differ, 20 (2010) 215–219. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2009.10.003] (2014) (1)
The validity and structure of mating intelligence (2016) (1)
Corrigendum to "Associative learning predicts intelligence above and beyond working memory and processing speed" [Intelligence 37 (2009) 374-382] (DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2009.03.004) (2010) (1)
Awe Experience Scale (2020) (1)
Project Plowshare versus the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (2018) (1)
Interview with: Scott B. Kaufman and James C. Kaufman, editors of The Psychology of Creative Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2009) (2012) (1)
Experiential learning of cultural norms: The role of implicit and explicit aptitudes. (2022) (1)
The Psychology of Creative Writing: Putting the Parts Together: An Integrative Look at the Psychology of Creative Writing (2009) (1)
3. A Program on Hold (2017) (0)
7. Making Headway (2017) (0)
Dead as a Doornail (2012) (0)
Introduction: Promoting the Peaceful Atom (2017) (0)
Image and the Election (2017) (0)
Light Triad Scale (2020) (0)
8. Plowshare Goes Down Under (2012) (0)
Innovation and self-actualization: A symbiotic relationship: Transcript (2020) (0)
What Is the Relation Between Cognitive G and Academic Achievement G?: (624692010-001) (2010) (0)
Chapter 5 Conceptions of Giftedness (0)
6. Nuclear Testing, Nonproliferation, and Plowshare (2017) (0)
From Contretemps to Creativity (2014) (0)
BENTON, MICHAEL. Literary Biography An Introduction.(London: Wiley-Blackwell). 2009. pp. 280.£ 60.00 (hbk). BERGMANN, SIGURD. In the Beginning is the Icon: A Liberative Theology of Images, Visual Arts and Culture.(London: Equinox Publishing Limited). 2009. pp. 256.£ 50.00 (hbk) (2010) (0)
5. The Complexities of Canal Construction (2012) (0)
On the Trail of g (2013) (0)
Jerome L. Singer (1924-2019). (2022) (0)
Conclusion: Back from the Dead? (2017) (0)
The structure, reliability and predictive validity of mating intelligence: (634112013-390) (2011) (0)
Corrigendum to “The effects of mood, cognitive style, and cognitive ability on implicit learning” [Learning and Individual Differences 20(3) (2010) 215–219] (2014) (0)
4. From Moratorium to Test Ban (2012) (0)
Honeymoon and Hardship (2017) (0)
High Expectations . . . Unrealized (2017) (0)
My Quest to Understand Human Intelligence (2018) (0)
Review of The psychology of humor: An integrative approach. (2008) (0)
9. Dead as a Doornail (2017) (0)
1. A Plan of Biblical Proportions (2012) (0)
Scott Barry Kaufman's Review of Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development, Edited By (0)
Inspiration and Knowledge regarding the Current and Further Re- Search and Program Development in the Field of Creativity (2008) (0)
There Is No One Way to Live a Good Life (2017) (0)
Climbing the Ladder of Power (2017) (0)
Back from the Dead (2012) (0)
AP-PSPJ210076 1..21 (2021) (0)
Promoting the Peaceful Atom (2012) (0)
The Psychology of Creative Writing: Preface (2009) (0)
The Dark Core of Personality (2018) (0)
A Step Away (2017) (0)
2. Just Drop Us a Card (2012) (0)
The Science of Passionate Sex (2017) (0)
Commentary on Kovacs and Conway, Process Overlap Theory: A Unified Account of the General Factor of Intelligence (2016) (0)

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