Errata

Below are corrections to errors of various kinds - both big and small - that managed to intrude into some of my publications.  Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience or confusion they might have caused any reader.

If you find any other errors, please contact me at dksimonton@ucdavis.edu.
 

6. Simonton, D. K. (1975e). Invention and discovery among the sciences: A P-technique factor analysis. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 7, 275-281.

p. 278, Table 2: The "Percent of variance" reported for each factor is for the unrotated rather than rotated factor matrix.  Of course, the variances explained by the Varimax rotated factors are much more equally distributed, namely, 16.4, 15.4, and 14.8.
 

10. Simonton, D. K. (1976c). Do Sorokin's data support his theory?: A study of generational fluctuations in philosophical beliefs. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 15, 187-198.

The title has been changed to be grammatically correct. The original read "Does Sorokin's data support his theory."

15. Simonton, D. K. (1977a). Creative productivity, age, and stress: A biographical time-series analysis of 10 classical composers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 791-804.

pp. 795-796: This investigation was conducted before the advent of modern methods of analyzing cross-sectional time-series data (e.g., hierarchical linear models). Consequently, the method chosen to control for historical time and individual differences had the inadvertent effect of negating the possibility of identifying linear functions of age. Even so, the curvilinear functions of age still hold, along with any effects of the other substantive independent variables.

16. Simonton, D. K. (1977b). Cross-sectional time-series experiments: Some suggested statistical analyses. Psychological Bulletin, 84, 489-502.

An erratum was printed on page 1097 in the same volume of the journal, but the suggested statistical analyses have been superceded by more recent developments in the treatment of longitudinal data, rendering these corrections irrelevant.
 

27. Simonton, D. K. (1979d). Was Napoleon a military genius? Score: Carlyle 1, Tolstoy 1. Psychological Reports, 44, 21-22.

p. 22, 4th line of text from the bottom: Carlyle's theory explains 9% (= .30²) of the variance, not 15% as stated.
 

44. Simonton, D. K. (1984b). Creative productivity and age: A mathematical model based on a two-step cognitive process. Developmental Review, 4, 77-111.

The reprints of this article and the first page of the published article incorrectly have it appearing in "3, 97-111 (1983)." The above citation is correct. At the last minute the article was moved from one volume to the next.
 

47. Simonton, D. K. (1984e). Genius, creativity, and leadership: Historiometric inquiries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

p. 64, beginning of last paragraph: "Catherine" should be "Catharine."

p. 172, 1st sentence after Soroking quote: "prevalance" should be "prevalence."

p. 174, last paragraph, 5th line: "discernable" should be "discernible."

p. 211, last paragraph: "Figure A.2" should be "Figure A.3."

p. 219, Simon (1955) reference: Biometrica should be Biometrika.

59. Simonton, D. K. (1985d). Quality, quantity, and age: The careers of 10 distinguished psychologists. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 21, 241-254.

pp. 248-249: This investigation was conducted before the advent of modern methods of analyzing cross-sectional time-series data (e.g., hierarchical linear models). Therefore, the introduction of two sets of controls - date and the individual-difference dummies - had an unforeseen effect, namely that the linear age term was overcontrolled. It is not possible under this design to detect any linear longitudinal changes. However, the curvilinear effects still hold.
 

69. Simonton, D. K. (1986i). Popularity, content, and context in 37 Shakespeare plays. Poetics, 15, 493-510.

p. 502, paragraph enumerated (2) should begin "Dramatic popularity is positively related ..." (omitting the "finally" and corresponding punctuation).

p. 505, paragraph enumerated (2) should have "Opposition 4e" rather than "Opposition 43."
 

71. Simonton, D. K. (1986k). Presidential personality: Biographical use of the Gough Adjective Check List. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 149-160.

p. 154, Table 2: The score on Factor 10 for George Washington should be -0.4, not -.40.
 

88. Simonton, D. K. (1989a). Age and creative productivity: Nonlinear estimation of an information-processing model. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 29, 23-37.

p. 29, Table 1: For Geologists a = .024 and b = .036, and the peak age 33.8; for historians the career peak age should be 39.7 and the half life 38.5 (i.e., these have been inadvertently reversed).
 

106. Simonton, D. K. (1991c). Emergence and realization of genius: The lives and works of 120 classical composers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 829-840.

p. 837, Table 2: The correlation between Age at Lessons and Lifetime output for Themes should be -.33 rather than .33, making all of the correlations in that row and the next negative (as hypothesized).  Note that this was corrected in the reprinting of Simonton (1997g).
 

135. Simonton, D. K. (1994e). Greatness: Who makes history and why. New York: Guilford Press.

p. 143, middle: Catharine Cox, not Catherine Cox. Similarly for bottom of p. 224 and bottom of p. 493.

p. 218, last line: 140 should be 180 (= 100 X 90/50)

p. 297, two thirds down: "heroine" should be "heroin"!

p. 298, Table 10.3, line before note: No comma before Hideki.

p. 378, "Person to Person," third sentence: "the Bird" should be just "Bird."
 

146. Simonton, D. K. (1995g). Exceptional personal influence: An integrative paradigm. Creativity Research Journal, 8, 371-376.

p. 373, Figure 1: The caption should end "various forms of the phenomenon, including genius, creativity, and leadership." The last line of caption had been truncated by the printer.
 
 

238. Simonton, D. K. (2002e). Great psychologists and their times: Scientific insights into psychology's history. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

p. 7, Exhibit 1.1: Clifford Thomas Morgan (1915-1976) should be Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1852-1936).

p. 12: Dorothy Cantor was APA President in 1996, not 1966.

p. 87:  p (t) = a²me ^{- at} should read p (t) = a²mte ^{- at} (i.e., there should be a t between the m and the e).

p. 195: Lyell was not a respondent. He was blind when he received the questionnaire and "died four months after Galton wrote his preface, understandably without having completed the questionnaire" (Hilts, 1975, p. 18).
 

281. Simonton, D. K. (2005c). Cinematic creativity and production budgets: Does money make the movie? Journal of Creative Behavior, 39, 1-15.

p. 9: Table 2 has a formatting error; the last two columns should be labeled "First weekend" and "Gross" instead of the unified and meaningless "First weekend Gross."

285. Simonton, D. K. (2005g). Film as art versus film as business: Differential correlates of screenplay characteristics. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 23, 93-117.

pp. 13-15: Tables 2-4 all have the same formatting error: The screenplay characteristics of origins (true story, biopic), predecessors (sequel, remake), and genre (drama, comedy, romance, musical) should not be subordinate to writer-director (i.e., should not be indented relative to the latter). Instead, these three attributes are each equal in analytical status to adaptations, writer-director, runtime, and MPAA rating.

308. Simonton, D. K. (2007b). But is truth beautiful, or beauty symmetric? [Review of the book Why beauty is truth: A history of symmetry, I. Stewart]. PsycCRITIQUES, 52 (52).

"Overview," third paragraph, third sentence: I meant to say "quadratic formula" rather than the obviously incorrect "binomial theorem."

310. Simonton, D. K. (2007d). Cinema composers: Career trajectories for creative productivity in film music. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 1, 160-169.

p. 163, first paragraph, 2nd column: "deceased" should be "deceased."

p. 167, last paragraph, 4th sentence: "specifying" should be "specify."

312. Simonton, D. K. (2007f). Creative life cycles in literature: Poets versus novelists or conceptualists versus experimentalists? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 1, 133-139.

p. 137: Table 2: The career peak for Dickens is at age 41 (this number was in the manuscript sent to the printer, so how it got deleted escapes me, but it's my error not to have caught the omission in the proofs).

320. Simonton, D. K. (2007n). Is bad art the opposite of good art? Positive versus negative cinematic assessments of 877 feature films. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 25, 121-143.

p. 156: Table 4: The correlation between Nonfiction and Oscars should have three asterisks instead of two asterisks and an eight; and "MPPS" should be "MPAA."

342. Simonton, D. K. (2008l). Scientific talent, training, and performance: Intellect, personality, and genetic endowment. Review of General Psychology, 12, 28-46.

p. 38, Table 2, last line before Note: h_c³²/R_c²should be h_c3²/R_c²

347. Simonton, D. K. (2009a). Applying the psychology of science to the science of psychology: Can psychologists use psychological science to enhance psychology as a science? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 2-4.

p. 2, 3rd sentence of introduction: More accurately, there are 54 divisions even though they are numbered to 56. Division 4 and 11 merged with other divisions, and the numbers have been retired (because lower numbers indicate higher status). Obama is not the 44th president but he is the 44th President.

p. 3, first sentence of first complete paragraph should end "a phenomenon worthy of psychological research" - how the last word got omitted and the omission survived unnoticed by anyone remains one of life's little mysteries!