Research Catalog

Title

Genius and eminence / edited by Robert S. Albert.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors

Albert, Robert S.

Description

xviii, 410 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

International series in experimental social psychology

Uniform Title

International series in experimental social psychology.

Subject

• Genius
• Creative ability
• Nature and nurture
• Achievement
• Creativity
• Famous Persons
• Psychology, Social

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• I. Overview and Issues. 1. A Developmental Theory of Eminence / R. S. Albert. 2. Motivation and Creativity / M. C. Csikszentmihalyi. 3. The Mad Genius Controversy / G. Becker -- II. Genius: Signs and Outcomes. 1. William James on Exceptional Mental States: The 1896 Lowell Lectures / E. Taylor. 2. The Early Mental Traits of 300 Geniuses / C. M. Cox. 3. Toward a Behavioral Definition of Genius / R. S. Albert. 4. Age and Achievement / D. K. Simonton -- III. Giftedness: Signs and Outcomes. 1. Two Levels of Giftedness: Shall Ever the Twain Meet? / R. S. Siegler and K. Kotovsky. 2. Intelligence Among University Scientists / J. Gibson and P. Light. 3. What Do Tests Tell Us About Talents? / M. A. Wallach -- IV. Social and Educational Influences on Creative Behavior and Exceptional Achievement. 1. Hereditary Genius Revisited: Were Galton's Missing Scientists the Aftermath of the Puritan Brain Drain to America? / P. H. Gray.
• 2. The Crystallizing Experience: Discovering an Intellectual Gift / J. Walters and H. Gardner. 3. The Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates' Mutual Influences / H. Zuckerman. 4. Why Children Follow in their Parents' Career Footsteps / D. N. Laband and B. F. Lentz -- V. Family and Parental Influences on Creative Behavior and Exceptional Achievement. 1. The Highly Effective Individual / D. W. MacKinnon. 2. Testing Aspects of Carl Rogers's Theory of Creative Environments: Child-Rearing Antecedents of Creative Potential in Young Adolescents / D. M. Harrington, J. H. Block and J. Block. 3. A 40-year Follow-up of Giftedness: Fulfillment and Unfulfillment / M. Oden. 4. Which of Those Young Women with Creative Potential Became Productive? Personality in College and Characteristics of Parents / R. Helson. 5. Home Environment and the Competitiveness of Highly Accomplished Individuals in Four Talent Fields / J. A. Monsaas and G. Engelhard, Jr.
• VI. Personality Dispositions to Creative Behavior and Exceptional Achievement. 1. Personality Correlates of Exceptional Personal Influence: A Note on Thorndike's (1950) Creators and Leaders / D. K. Simonton. 2. Personality, Research Creativity, and Teaching Effectiveness / J. P. Rushton, H. G. Murray and S. V. Paunonen. 3. Personality Consistency: Eminent Architects 25 Years Later / S. Z. Dudek and W. B. Hall. 4. Creative Writers / F. Barron -- VII. Personal Dynamics and Creative Problems in Exceptional Achievement. 1. Great Wits and Madness / G. Claridge. 2. Mood Disorders and Patterns of Creativity in British Writers and Artists / K. R. Jamison. 3. William James and the Twice-Born Sick Soul / C. Strout. 4. Prime Ministers and the Search for Love / H. Berrington. 5. A Mathematician's Apology / G. H. Hardy.

ISBN

• 0080377645 (HC) :
• 0080377653 (FC) :

LCCN

92012055

OCLC

• 25631452
• ocm25631452

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries