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Dean Keith Simonton
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 371
Citations - 18553
Dean Keith Simonton is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Creativity & Genius. The author has an hindex of 66, co-authored 369 publications receiving 17400 citations. Previous affiliations of Dean Keith Simonton include Florida State University & University of California, Berkeley.
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Creativity. Cognitive, personal, developmental, and social aspects
TL;DR: Progress has been made in understanding creativity since J. P. Guilford's call to arms and more is known than ever before about how individuals achieve this special and significant form of optimal human functioning.
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Origins of genius : Darwinian perspectives on creativity
TL;DR: In this article, the Genius and Darwinian Genius were discussed and the process of creating a genius was discussed. But the focus was on how the genius differs from the rest of us, and not on the nature of the genius itself.
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Greatness: Who Makes History and Why
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of intelligence and personality in the drive to succeed in life, and the significance of personality in psychopathology and violence as a Shaper of history.
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Scientific creativity as constrained stochastic behavior: The integration of product, person, and process perspectives.
TL;DR: This behavioral analysis supports the inference that scientific creativity constitutes a form of constrained stochastic behavior, that is, it can be accurately modeled as a quasi-random combinatorial process.
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Creative productivity: A predictive and explanatory model of career trajectories and landmarks.
TL;DR: This paper developed a model that explains and predicts both longitudinal and cross-sectional variation in the output of major and minor creative products, including contrasts across creative domains in the expected career trajectories.