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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 in Psychology: On Becoming and Being a Great Psychologist
TL;DR: In this article, Johnson, Germer, Efran, and Overton discuss the relationship between psychology and individual idiosyncrasies of a more subtle kind, such as Jung's Oedipal Complex, and reveal the intimate connections between psychologist as person and psychologist as creator.
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Does Talent Exist? : Yes!
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that deliberate practice is not only necessary but also sufficient for the development of scientific talent, and that extreme proponents of deliberate practice not only go well beyond their own data, but also ignore the well-established findings of behavior genetics.
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Giftedness, Talent, and Genius: Untangling Conceptual Confusions
TL;DR: The authors disentangle any conceptual confusions among the three concepts of genius, genius has considerable conceptual overlap with both giftedness and talent, and the concept of genius has been defined as a construct distinct from either genius or talent.