SAMPLE POWER-POINT PRESENTATIONS
Below is a collection of recent presentations that convey the diversity of topics that I have addressed on different occasions from 2003 on.
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Invited Addresses
Aging and creative productivity. Max Planck International Research Network on Aging, Hotel Döllnsee-Schorfheide, Germany, 2005.
Creativity and madness: The myth and truth. Psychology Forum, The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA, 2006.
Film as theater versus flick as circus: Creativity and aesthetics in the narrative feature film. American Psychological Association, Washington DC, 2005. [N.B.: The title of presentation differs from that in the program because of a change of emphasis between invitation and convention.]
The genetics of talent development: Putting the gift back into giftedness. E. Paul Torrance Lecture, College of Education, University of Georgia, Athens, 2005.
Genius, creativity, and their place within a positive psychology. International Positive Psychology Summit, Gallup Organization, Washington DC, 2003.
Giftedness: The gift that keeps on giving. National Association for Gifted Children, Minneapolis, 2007.
The other IQ: Historiometric assessments of intelligence. International Society for Intelligence Research, San Francisco, 2006.
Scientific creativity, logic, and chance: The integration of product, person, and process research traditions. Western Psychological Association, Vancouver, Canada, 2003.
Teaching and the Big Five. Teaching Personality and Social Psychology Pre-Conference, Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, 2003.
Varieties
of (scientific) creativity: Fitting together the puzzle pieces of disposition
and development. International Society for the Psychology of Science
and Technology, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany, 2008.
Symposia
Is fame fickle, fleeting, fluff? The reliability and validity of individual differences in eminence. In S. Vazire (Chair), Reputation matters: New research on an age-old concern. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, 2005.
Cinematic
creativity and aesthetics: Impact criteria and component predictors.
In S. R. Pritzker (Chair), Creativity and the movies. American Psychological
Association, San Francisco, 2007.
Conferences
Creative genius: Two Darwinian perspectives. Conflict, cooperation, and creativity in complex systems, co-presented by the Santa Fe Institute and the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, Washington DC, 2007.
Genius 101: A book prospectus. Genius Week, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2007.
Personal and situational factors predicting greatness ratings of US presidents: A quarter-century quest. International Leadership Association, Chicago, 2006.
Scientific
creativity as a combinatorial process: The chance baseline. “Milieus
of Creativity” symposium at Villa Bosch Studio, Heidelberg (organized by
the Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg and supported by
the Klaus Tschira Foundation), 2006. [Earlier version given at the New
Ideas about New Ideas Conference, National Bureau of Economic Research,
Cambridge, MA, 2006.]
Colloquia
Creativity and leadership: How much are they the same? How much are they different? Technology and Operations Management Seminar Series, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, 2005. [Originally given at the Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Colloquium Series, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2003; updated versions given at the Stern School of Business at New York University, 2006, and as an invited address for the International Leadership Association, Chicago, 2006.]
Creativity in science: Dispositional and developmental correlates. Personality Lab, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 2004.
Great psychologists: The scientific analysis of psychology’s past and present to predict and control its future. Annual Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture, Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, 2006.
Is genius born or made? Refinements and complications in the nature-nurture controversy. Department of Psychology, Florida State University, 2006.
Scientific talent, training, and performance: Intellect, personality, and genetic endowment. Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley, 2008.
Professional Presentations (Complete List)
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