Works in Progress

Works in Progress

Below is a partial list of projects on which I am currently working. A couple of them I work on every day, a few more at least once a week, whereas still others represent "back-burner" enterprises that for the present reside in the incubation phase of the creative process. In some cases the data collection is still well in the future, whereas in other instances the data wait impatiently on my computer for me to begin the necessary statistical analyses. Within each category I have listed the projects in approximate order of the progress I have made on them. I say "approximate" because it occasionally happens that a stroke of inspiration will shove a neglected project to the front burner; the fire then is turned up in intensity, the stirring becomes vigorous, and in a flash a completed dish is all ready for consumption. Some of my best work arises that way - including items not even on my list of "works in progress"!

Journal Articles

Creative thought as blind-variation and selective-retention: Constrained combinatorial models of exceptional creativity. Physics of Life Review.
Creativity as blind variation: Campbell’s (1960) BVSR model after the half-century mark.
Achievement under constraint: The African-American experience.
Disciplinary series, creativity, personality, and development: A meta-analysis (with R. I. Damian).
Predicting presidential greatness: Do better measured predictors do worse?
Divergent developmental trajectories in Cox's 282 eminent creators and leaders (with A. V. Song).
Achieving eminence as a woman psychologist: The impact of family experiences and choices.
Melodic structure in the Beethoven symphony.
Quality and quantity of creative output across the life span: Conflicting findings?
Transformational versus transactional leadership: Some biographical antecedents.
Military leadership: Strategic zeitgeist versus tactical genius.
Dating the Shakespeare canon: An objective analysis of internal and external criteria.
Personality, theory, and methodology in 54 eminent psychologists.
Assimilation and accommodation in Islamic civilization.
Monarchs and rulers: Life span, reign span, and eminence.
The tortoise and the hare: Enduring versus transient achievement.
Individual and situational factors behind historical continuity.

Book Chapters

Fields, domains, and individuals. In M. D. Mumford (Eds.), Handbook of organizational creativity. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science.
Are pure mathematicians the lyric poets of science? Mathematical output and creativity across the life span. In S. Krantz & P. Casazza (Eds.),The psychology of the mathematician.
Exceptional talent and genius. In T. Chamorro-Premuzic, A. Furnham, & S. Stumm (Eds.), Handbook of Individual Differences. New York: Wiley-Blackwell
Creative genius in literature, music, and the visual arts. In V. Ginsburgh & D. Throsby (Eds.), Handbook of the economics of art and culture (Vol. 2). Amsterdam: Elsevier/North Holland.
Creativity and aging. In S. K. Whitbourne & M. Sliwinski (Eds.), Handbook of developmental psychology: Adult development and aging. Wiley-Blackwell.
Hierarchies of creative domains: Disciplinary constraints on blind-variation and selective-retention. In E. S. Paul & S. B. Kaufman (Eds.), Philosophy of creativity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Creative genius in science. In G. J. Feist & M. Gorman (Eds.), Handbook of the psychology of science. New York: Springer.
Genius. In K. J. Holyoak & R.G. Morrison (Eds.), Oxford handbook of thinking and reasoning. New York: Oxford University Press.
Presidential leadership. In M. G. Rumsey (Ed.), Oxford handbook of leadership. New York: Oxford University Press.

Books

The psychology of civilization: Genius and talent in the history of human achievement.
Exceptional creativity and leadership: How much the same? How really different?
Profiles of genius: Exemplars of creativity, leadership, and talent.

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Last updated: November 17, 2009