Dean Keith Simonton, PhD
Distinguished Professor
and Vice Chair
Department of Psychology
University of California,
Davis
Contents
Contact Information | Biographical Data | Personal Interests
Expertise
Archival data analysis - cross-cultural, transhistorical, biographical, and content analytical measures, with special stress on the historiometric analyses of eminent personalities, notable events, and creative products.
History of psychology - including analyses
from the standpoint of the psychology of science, especially the psychology
of distinguished scientists and eminent psychologists.
Universities - Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California (all campuses except the new UC Merced), Florida State, Georgia, Göttingen, Harvard, Michigan, National Defense, NYU, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, San José State, Stanford, USC, Yale; Colleges - Carleton, Claremont McKenna, Occidental, Pitzer; Medical College of Wisconsin;
Organizations - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, National Bureau of Economic Research, Santa Fe Institute, Commonwealth Club, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milken Family Foundation, Belin National Center for Gifted Education, Center for Creative Leadership, Creative Education Foundation, Positive Psychology Center, Torrance Center.
Course Websites
| Number | Title | Type |
| Psychology 151 | Social Psychology | Upper-division undergraduate survey course |
| Psychology 175 | Genius, Creativity, and Leadership | General Education: Social Sciences - Expository Writing |
| Psychology 185 | History of Psychology | Capstone course in undergraduate major |
| Psychology 204B | Causal Modeling of Correlational Data | Second course in first-year graduate statistics series |
| Psychology 220 | History of Psychology | Graduate seminar |
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N.B.: These are for the scale item "My instructor is an excellent teacher, overall." The teaching evaluations received are not significantly different across courses, levels, enrollments, quarters, or years.The only statistically significant effect is for 185 to earn slightly higher ratings (+.104, p = .005).
Professional Service
Associate Editor: Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology (2007-present)
Guest Editor:
Leadership Quarterly (two-part Special
Issue on "Political Leadership," 1996-98);
Review of General Psychology (Special
Issue on "Positive Psychology," with R. F. Baumeister, 2003-04).
Editorial Boards:
Journals: Journal of Personality (1985-93), Creativity Research Journal (1988-present), Empirical Studies of the Arts (1994-present), Political Psychology (1997-2005), Leadership Quarterly (1998-2001), Review of General Psychology (1998-present), Journal of Creative Behavior (1999-present), Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts (2001-2006), Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving (2002-present), the Oxfordian (2005-2007), Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (2006-present); PsycCRITIQUES (2006-present), Perspectives on Psychological Science (2007-present), Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2007-present).
Book series: Expertise: Research and Applications, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/Taylor & Francis (1995-present).
Executive Advisory Board: Encyclopedia of Creativity, Academic Press (1996-1999).
Advisory Boards:
Oxford Guide to Creativity Research Methodology,
Oxford University Press (2004-present);
History and Systems in Psychology, Oxford
University Press (2006-present).
Publications Committee: Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (APA Division 10; 2003-2007)
Corresponding Associate Commentator: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1990-present).
Reviewer:
Organizations: National Science Foundation (19), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (5), Guggenheim Foundation (3), John Templeton Foundation (3), European Science Foundation (2), National Endowment for the Humanities, National Research Council (The National Academies), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Sloan Foundation, Spencer Foundation, National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, APA Program Committees (Divisions 5, 8, 10), Hampton Research Grants Programme, Ohio State University Seed Grant Program, Jackson State University Center for University Scholars, APA Student Travel Award Program (44 evaluations / 15 organizations).
Publishers: Lawrence Erlbaum (15), Academic Press (10), Oxford University Press (9), Cambridge University Press (6), Sage Publications (4), Guilford Press (3), Psychology Press (3), Prentice-Hall (2), Brooks/Cole (2), Westview (2), Freeman (2), Kluwer Academic Publishers (2), APA Books, Harvard University Press, Harvard Business School Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Princeton University Press, Springer, Elsevier, Harcourt Brace Janovich, Allyn & Bacon, Basic Books, Jossey-Bass, Greenwood Press, Wadsworth, Wiley, Worth (75 evaluations / 26 publishers).
Journals: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (59); Review of General Psychology (32); Journal of Personality (25); Journal of Creative Behavior (24); Political Psychology (23); Leadership Quarterly (21); Psychological Bulletin (21); Creativity Research Journal (18); Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (14); American Psychologist (10); Psychological Review (10); Psychological Science (10); IEEE Spectrum (9); Multivariate Behavioral Research (9); Psychology and Aging (9); Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (8); Personality and Individual Differences (7); Psychology of Music (7); Empirical Studies of the Arts (6); Gerontologist (6); Music Perception (6); Developmental Review (5); International Journal of Aging and Human Development (5); Perspectives on Psychological Science (5); Social Studies of Science (5); Behavioral Science (4); British Journal of Psychology (4); International Journal of Psychology (4); Journal of Applied Social Psychology (4); Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving (4); New Ideas in Psychology (4); Poetics (4); Sex Roles (4); Developmental Psychology (3); The Oxfordian (3); Perceptual and Motor Skills (3); Personality and Social Psychology Review (3); Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2); Comparative Civilizations Review (2); History of Psychology (2); Human Performance (2); Intelligence (2); Journal for the Education of the Gifted (2); Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (2); Journal of Research in Personality (2); Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences (2); Omega: Journal of Death and Dying (2); Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2); Psychological Inquiries (2); Psychological Reports (2); Social Forces (2); Social Psychology Quarterly (2); Acta Biotheoretica; Administrative Science Quarterly; American Bar Foundation Research Journal; American Journal of Psychology; American Political Science Review; Animal Cognition; Appetite; Assessment; Basic and Applied Social Psychology; Behavior Genetics; Behavior Science Research; Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science; Cognition and Emotion; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Science; Complexity; Computers and the Humanities; Configurations; Cultural Trends; Current Directions for Psychological Science; Decision Sciences; The Economic Journal; Educational Psychology Review; European Journal of Neurology; Evaluation and Program Planning; Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines; History of Science; Human Development; Human Relations; IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; International Journal of Behavioral Development; International Studies in the Philosophy of Science; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Applied Psychology; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Journal of Family Psychology; Journal of Gerontology; Journal of Positive Psychology; Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology; Journal of Sports Sciences; Learning and Individual Differences; Leonardo; Life Span Development and Behavior; Methods; Musicae Scientiae; Philosophical Psychology; Population and Development Review; Psychonomic Bulletin and Review; Research Policy; Scientometrics; Social Behavior and Personality; Social Science Quarterly; Sociological Methods and Research; South African Journal of Art History; Sports Medicine; Synthese (484 evaluations / 111 journals).
Offices: President, International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (1998-2000); President, APA Division 10 (1985-86); Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, APA Division 10 (1980-82); Chair, Program Committee, APA Division 10 (1984); Member, Fellow Nomination Committee, APA Division 10 (1999-2000, 2003-04); Member, Awards Committee, APA Division 10 (2004-05); Member, Fellow Nomination Committee, IAEA (2003-04);Member, Program Committee APA Division 10 (2002-03); Member, Advisory Board, International Association of Empirical Aesthetics meeting, Lisbon, Portugal (2003-04); Member, Executive Committee, International Congress on Creativity and Psychology of the Arts, Perm, Russia (2003-05); Member, Program Committee, Computational Creativity Workshop at the 7th European Conference in Case-Based Reasoning, Madrid, Spain (2003-04).
Consultant: North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels, Belgium; National Defense University, Department of Defense, Washington, DC; California Youth Authority, Sacramento; Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC; Creative Problem Solving Institute, Buffalo, NY; Arvin Perlmutter, Inc.; Milken Family Foundation; Student Achievement and Advocacy Service Corporation; Templeton Foundation.
Member, Committee on Academic Personnel.
University of California, Davis Campus:
Committee Chair: Academic Personnel; Distinguished Teaching Awards; Arts and Lectures; Teaching Excellence and Merit; Davis Honors Challenge Administrative Review Committee.
Committee Member: Academic Planning Council; Academic Senate Executive Council; Executive Council Advisory Group; Teaching; UC Davis Prize; Registration Fee; Computing Administrative Advisory; Center for Performing Arts Program Planning; Emeriti; Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship Advisory; Courses and Bylaws Subcommittee of the Graduate Council; Child Care; Human Subjects; Sub Work Group on Retention; Search for Director of Teaching Resources Center; Institute for Governmental Affairs; Chancellor's UCD 75th Anniversary Celebration Advisory Council; Program Review (Statistics; Rhetoric and Communication); Winslow and Gilhooly Award Selection; Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Fellowships.
President, Kappa Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa.
Liaison Officer, Danforth Foundation.
Participant, Recorder, or Discussion
Leader: Chancellor's Fall Conferences.
Member, Human Development and Statistics
Graduate Groups.
Faculty Advisor, Epsilon Sigma Rho (Multicultural
Fraternity).
College of Letters and Sciences:
Chair of the Faculty, for the Executive
Committee and Representative Assembly.
Vice-Chair of the Faculty.
Committee Chair: College Personnel; Nominations
and Elections.
Committee Member: College Personnel; Educational Policy; Courses of Instruction; Nominations and Elections; Search, Executive Associate Dean; Search, Associate Dean of Academic Personnel; Undergraduate Computing Lab Workgroup for the Division of Social Sciences; Task Force to Review the Composition Requirement.
Commencement Speaker for the 1994 Graduation Ceremonies.
Faculty Coordinator, Fulmor Scholarship
Program.
Advisor, Education Abroad Program.
Department of Psychology:
Departmental Vice-Chair.
Committee Chair: Undergraduate Advising and Student-Faculty Liaison; Undergraduate Honors Advisor; Undergraduate Curriculum; Graduate Advising; Search for Social Psychologist; Search for Quantitative Psychologist.
Committee Member: Graduate Admissions; Computer; Equipment; Search Committee.
Faculty Graduate Advisor.
Undergraduate Honors Advisor.
Faculty Sponsor, Psi Chi (National Honorary
Society).
Master Advisor.
Representative, Representative Assembly
of the Academic Senate.
Representative, College Assembly of Letters
and Science.
Office phone: 530-752-1677 FAX: 530-752-2087
Address:
Department of Psychology
One Shields Avenue
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616-8686
USA
Departmental Office: 102D Young Hall
Office Hours (Fall):
MWF: 3:10-4:00 (or by appointment).
January 27, 1948, Glendale, CA (Los Angeles Metropolitan
Area)
Ancestry:
Scottish, English, Serbian, and French-Canadian
(i.e., Gàidhlig, West Germanic, South Slavic, and Gallo Romance)
Education:
| Occidental College | B.A. | 1970 | Psychology | |
| Harvard University | M.A. | 1973 | Social Psychology | |
| Harvard University | Ph.D. | 1975 | Social Psychology |
N.B.: Actually, the M.A. and Ph.D. are both written entirely in Latin, and hence the degrees were not really in "social psychology" but rather in some obscure Latin translation.
Academic Positions:
2004 Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis (to present; Above Scale II in UC System; go here);
1985 Professor, University of California, Davis (to 2004);
1985 Visiting Research Psychologist, Institute for Personality Assessment and Research, University of California, Berkeley;
1980 Associate Professor, University of California, Davis (to 1985);
1976 Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis (to 1980);
1974 Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas (to 1976);
1971 Teaching Fellow, Introductory Psychology and Social Psychology, Harvard University (to 1973);
1969 Section Leader, History of Civilization, Occidental College (to 1970).
Scholastic Awards and Achievements:
HARVARD UNIVERSITY:
Doctoral General Exams passed “with Distinction” (top in class, 1972);
Fellow, National Science Foundation (1970-1972);
Fellow, Danforth Foundation (1970-1974).OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE:
Phi Beta Kappa (1970);
Magna Cum Laude (High Honors in Psychology; 1970);
Psi Chi (National Honorary Psychology Society, 1969);
99+ Percentile on Graduate Record Examination Psychology Subject Test (1969);
Arnston Memorial Award for essay contest regarding “Man’s Place and Function in the Universe” (1969);
College Scholar (1967-1970);
California State Scholarship (1966-1970).JOHN H. FRANCIS POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL:
Salutatorian (second highest GPA in mid-year graduating class of 256 students, 1966);
Three Special Awards (top in mid-year graduating class) for Science, Social Studies, and English (1966);
Ephebian Society (Los Angeles metropolitan society honoring character, leadership, community service, and scholastic achievement, 1966);
Self-Government Award (1966);
Seal Bearer (Lifetime Member, California Scholarship Federation, 1966);
Scholar Quiz Award (won televised competition for Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, 1965);
Team Captain, Knowledge Bowl Team (1965);
Member, California Scholarship Federation (1964-1966).RICHARD E. BYRD JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL:
Graduation Speaker on theme “Light the Path to Knowledge” (1963);
Two Awards of Merit (top in mid-year graduating class) for Science and Social Studies (1963);
Sextants (Scholarship Society, 1962-1963);
Junior Research Science (Los Angeles metropolitan summer program for scientific talent, 1962).
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