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. Keynote, National Association for Gifted Children, Minneapolis, 2007.
The other IQ: Historiometric assessments of intelligence. International Society for Intelligence Research, San Francisco, 2006.
Creative scientists, artists, and psychologists: Modeling disposition, development, and achievement. Master Lectures Program, Board of Scientific Affairs, American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, 2009. [Earlier versions given in Taipei and Berlin]
Scientific creativity, logic, and chance: The integration of product, person, and process research traditions. Western Psychological Association, Vancouver, Canada, 2003.
Scientific creativity: The science and the art. Incite Your Curiosity Lectures, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas, 2010.
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. Keynote, International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany, 2008.
Varieties
of creativity: Types and levels. Keynote, International Conference
on Creativity Education, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008. [Revised and enlarged version
of preceding]
Symposia
Cinematic creativity and aesthetics: Impact criteria and component predictors. In S. R. Pritzker (Chair), Creativity and the movies. American Psychological Association, San Francisco, 2007.
First, best, and last: Creative landmarks across the career course. In S. B Kaufman & L. Smith (Chairs), Can creativity change? American Psychological Association, Toronto, 2009.
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.
The muse
and the clockwork in the Clockwork Muse: A retrospective review of Colin
Martindale’s magnum opus. In J. M. Kwiatkowski & O. A. Vartanian
(Chairs), Colin Martindale-A tribute to the arbiter. American Psychological
Association, Toronto, 2009.
Conferences
Cinematic success criteria and their predictors: The art and business of the film industry. Economics of Art and Culture, European Science Days, Steyr, Austria 2009.
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.
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 discovery as blind variation (and selective attention): Tautological identity, heuristic metaphor, or patent absurdity? Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 2009.
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.
Workshops
Cinematic sex doesn’t sell – nor even artistically impress! Content ratings, box office, critical reviews, and movie awards. Economics of Art and Culture, European Science Days, Steyr, Austria 2009.
Creativity measurement: Big, medium, and little. International Conference on Creativity Education, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008.
Personal
and situational factors predicting greatness ratings of US presidents:
A quarter-century quest. International Leadership Association, Chicago,
2006.
Miscellaneous
Presidential
personality and performance. Davis Senior Center, 2009.
Professional Presentations (Complete List)
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