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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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Diversifying Experiences in the Development of Genius and their Impact on Creative Cognition
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Dramatic Greatness and Content: A Quantitative Study of Eighty-One Athenian and Shakespearean Plays
TL;DR: In this article, three hypotheses specified the possible direct and indirect determinants of a play's greatness and issue content, and a sample consisted of eighty-one plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristo...
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REJOINDER: Picasso's Guernica Creativity as a Darwinian Process: Definitions, Clarifications, Misconceptions, and Applications
TL;DR: In this paper, the author responds to four commentaries on Simonton and concludes that Picasso's creative process is best described as Darwinian, and also that the Darwinian theory of creativity has been notably strengthened by the current exchange.
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Big-C Versus Little-c Creativity: Definitions, Implications, and Inherent Educational Contradictions
TL;DR: In this paper, two empirical investigations showed that achieved eminence as a creator can sometimes be a curvilinear, inverted-U function of the level of formal education attained by the individual.
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Creative problem solving as sequential BVSR: Exploration (total ignorance) versus elimination (informed guess)
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) was extended to sequential BVSR, that is, when ideas are generated and tested consecutively rather than simultaneously.