Dean Keith Simonton, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
1976-2016 Psychology University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 
Area:
genius, creativity, leadership
Website:
http://simonton.faculty.ucdavis.edu/

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2019 Simonton DK. Creativity and psychopathology: the tenacious mad-genius controversy updated Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 27: 17-21. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cobeha.2018.07.006  0.354
2019 Glaveanu VP, Hanchett Hanson M, Baer J, Barbot B, Clapp EP, Corazza GE, Hennessey B, Kaufman JC, Lebuda I, Lubart T, Montuori A, Ness IJ, Plucker J, Reiter‐Palmon R, Sierra Z, ... Simonton DK, et al. Advancing Creativity Theory and Research: A Socio‐cultural Manifesto The Journal of Creative Behavior. 54: 741-745. DOI: 10.1002/Jocb.395  0.481
2018 Simonton DK. Intellectual Brilliance and Presidential Performance: Why Pure Intelligence (or Openness) Doesn't Suffice. Journal of Intelligence. 6. PMID 31162445 DOI: 10.3390/Jintelligence6020018  0.363
2017 Antonakis J, House RJ, Simonton DK. Can super smart leaders suffer from too much of a good thing? The curvilinear effect of intelligence on perceived leadership behavior. The Journal of Applied Psychology. 102: 1003-1021. PMID 28358529 DOI: 10.1037/Apl0000221  0.346
2017 Simonton DK. Giving Credit Where Credit's Due: Why It's So Hard to Do in Psychological Science. Perspectives On Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association For Psychological Science. 11: 888-892. PMID 27899731 DOI: 10.1177/1745691616660155  0.344
2016 Simonton DK. Reverse engineering genius: historiometric studies of superlative talent. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. PMID 27187021 DOI: 10.1111/Nyas.13054  0.337
2016 Worrell FC, Knotek SE, Plucker JA, Portenga S, Simonton DK, Olszewski-Kubilius P, Schultz SR, Subotnik RF. Competition's Role in Developing Psychological Strength and Outstanding Performance Review of General Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/Gpr0000079  0.32
2016 Simonton DK. Defining Creativity: Don't We Also Need to Define What IsNotCreative? The Journal of Creative Behavior. 52: 80-90. DOI: 10.1002/Jocb.137  0.319
2015 Damian RI, Simonton DK. Psychopathology, adversity, and creativity: diversifying experiences in the development of eminent African Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 108: 623-36. PMID 25090126 DOI: 10.1037/Pspi0000011  0.689
2015 Simonton DK. Numerical odds and evens in Beethoven's nine symphonies: Can a computer really tell the difference? Empirical Studies of the Arts. 33: 18-35. DOI: 10.1177/0276237415569980  0.317
2015 Simonton DK. On Praising Convergent Thinking: Creativity as Blind Variation and Selective Retention Creativity Research Journal. 27: 262-270. DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2015.1063877  0.316
2015 Simonton DK. Psychology as a Science within Comte's Hypothesized Hierarchy: Empirical Investigations and Conceptual Implications Review of General Psychology. 19: 334-344. DOI: 10.1037/Gpr0000039  0.312
2014 Simonton DK. The Mad-Genius Paradox: Can Creative People Be More Mentally Healthy But Highly Creative People More Mentally Ill? Perspectives On Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association For Psychological Science. 9: 470-80. PMID 26186754 DOI: 10.1177/1745691614543973  0.306
2014 Simonton DK. Can creative productivity be both positively and negatively correlated with psychopathology? Yes! Frontiers in Psychology. 5: 455. PMID 24904471 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2014.00455  0.303
2014 Simonton DK. Addressing the recommended research agenda instead of repeating prior arguments Intelligence. 45: 120-121. DOI: 10.1016/J.Intell.2014.01.006  0.358
2014 Simonton DK. Creative performance, expertise acquisition, individual differences, and developmental antecedents: An integrative research agenda Intelligence. 45: 66-73. DOI: 10.1016/J.Intell.2013.04.007  0.349
2013 Simonton DK. Creative thought as blind variation and selective retention: Why creativity is inversely related to sightedness Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. 33: 253-266. DOI: 10.1037/A0030705  0.305
2013 Simonton DK. Creative problem solving as sequential BVSR: Exploration (total ignorance) versus elimination (informed guess) Thinking Skills and Creativity. 8: 1-10. DOI: 10.1016/J.Tsc.2012.12.001  0.303
2012 Simonton D, Skidmore L, Kaufman J. Mature cinematic content for immature minds: "Pushing the envelope" versus "toning it down" in family films Empirical Studies of the Arts. 30: 143-166. DOI: 10.2190/Em.30.2.C  0.463
2012 Simonton DK. Creative Genius as a Personality Phenomenon: Definitions, Methods, Findings, and Issues Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 6: 691-706. DOI: 10.1111/J.1751-9004.2012.00455.X  0.365
2012 Simonton DK. Taking the U.S. Patent Office Criteria Seriously: A Quantitative Three-Criterion Creativity Definition and Its Implications Creativity Research Journal. 24: 97-106. DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2012.676974  0.341
2012 Simonton DK, Graham JJ, Kaufman JC. Consensus and contrasts in consumers' cinematic assessments: Gender, age, and nationality in rating the top-250 films. Psychology of Popular Media Culture. 1: 87-96. DOI: 10.1037/A0027153  0.502
2012 Simonton DK. Foresight, Insight, Oversight, and Hindsight in Scientific Discovery: How sighted were galileo's telescopic sightings? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 6: 243-254. DOI: 10.1037/A0027058  0.348
2012 Ritter SM, Damian RI, Simonton DK, van Baaren RB, Strick M, Derks J, Dijksterhuis A. Diversifying experiences enhance cognitive flexibility Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 48: 961-964. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2012.02.009  0.68
2011 Simonton DK. Debating the BVSR Theory of Creativity: Comments on Dasgupta (2011) and Gabora (2011) Creativity Research Journal. 23: 381-387. DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2011.621861  0.333
2011 Simonton DK, Damian RI. Sometimes Old Wine in New Bottles Can Taste Better—and More Bitter Psyccritiques. 56. DOI: 10.1037/A0023754  0.654
2011 Damian RI, Simonton DK. From past to future art: The creative impact of Picasso's 1935 Minotauromachy on his 1937 Guernica Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 5: 360-369. DOI: 10.1037/A0023017  0.688
2011 Simonton DK. Creativity and Discovery as Blind Variation: Campbell's (1960) BVSR Model After the Half-Century Mark Review of General Psychology. 15: 158-174. DOI: 10.1037/A0022912  0.302
2010 Simonton DK. Creative thought as blind-variation and selective-retention: combinatorial models of exceptional creativity. Physics of Life Reviews. 7: 156-79. PMID 20416854 DOI: 10.1016/J.Plrev.2010.02.002  0.356
2010 Simonton DK, Ting SS. Creativity in eastern and western civilizations: The lessons of historiometry Management and Organization Review. 6: 329-350. DOI: 10.1111/J.1740-8784.2010.00188.X  0.723
2010 Simonton DK, Damian RI. In the Beginning Was the Word . . . Psyccritiques. 55. DOI: 10.1037/A0021346  0.651
2010 Cassandro VJ, Simonton DK. Versatility, openness to experience, and topical diversity in creative products: Rn exploratory historiometric analysis oř scientists, philosophers, and writers Journal of Creative Behavior. 44: 1-17. DOI: 10.1002/J.2162-6057.2010.Tb01322.X  0.759
2009 Simonton DK. Varieties of Perspectives on Creativity: Reply to Commentators. Perspectives On Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association For Psychological Science. 4: 466-7. PMID 26162219 DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-6924.2009.01157.X  0.326
2009 Simonton DK. Varieties of (Scientific) Creativity: A Hierarchical Model of Domain-Specific Disposition, Development, and Achievement. Perspectives On Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association For Psychological Science. 4: 441-52. PMID 26162214 DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-6924.2009.01152.X  0.323
2009 Simonton DK. 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 : a Journal of the Association For Psychological Science. 4: 2-4. PMID 26158820 DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-6924.2009.01093.X  0.32
2009 Simonton DK, Song AV. Eminence, IQ, physical and mental health, and achievement domain : Cox's 282 Geniuses revisited. Psychological Science. 20: 429-34. PMID 19399968 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.2009.02313.X  0.605
2009 Simonton DK. Historiometry in Personality and Social Psychology Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 3: 49-63. DOI: 10.1111/J.1751-9004.2008.00159.X  0.342
2009 Simonton DK. Controversial and volatile flicks: Concurrent dissension and temporal instability in film critic assessments Creativity Research Journal. 21: 311-318. DOI: 10.1080/10400410903297295  0.306
2009 Simonton DK. Cinematic success criteria and their predictors: The art and business of the film industry Psychology and Marketing. 26: 400-420. DOI: 10.1002/Mar.20280  0.308
2008 Simonton DK. Childhood giftedness and adulthood genius: A historiometric analysis of 291 eminent African Americans Gifted Child Quarterly. 52: 243-255. DOI: 10.1177/0016986208319294  0.328
2007 Simonton DK. REJOINDER: Picasso's Guernica Creativity as a Darwinian Process: Definitions, Clarifications, Misconceptions, and Applications Creativity Research Journal. 19: 381-394. DOI: 10.1080/10400410701753341  0.317
2007 Simonton DK. FEATURED ARTICLE: The Creative Process in Picasso's Guernica Sketches: Monotonic Improvements versus Nonmonotonic Variants Creativity Research Journal. 19: 329-344. DOI: 10.1080/10400410701753291  0.311
2007 Simonton DK. Creative life cycles in literature: Poets versus novelists or conceptualists versus experimentalists? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 1: 133-139. DOI: 10.1037/1931-3896.1.3.133  0.322
2007 Simonton DK. Psychology's limits as a scientific discipline: A personal view Applied and Preventive Psychology. 12: 35-36. DOI: 10.1016/J.Appsy.2007.07.006  0.356
2006 Simonton DK. Scientific status of disciplines, individuals, and ideas: Empirical analyses of the potential impact of theory Review of General Psychology. 10: 98-112. DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.10.2.98  0.335
2005 Simonton DK, Baumeister RF. Positive psychology at the summit Review of General Psychology. 9: 99-102. DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.9.2.99  0.328
2004 Simonton DK. Thematic Content and Political Context in Shakespeare's Dramatic Output, with Implications for Authorship and Chronology Controversies Empirical Studies of the Arts. 22: 201-213. DOI: 10.2190/Eqdp-Mk0K-Dfck-Ma8F  0.342
2004 Simonton DK. Psychology's Status as a Scientific Discipline: Its Empirical Placement Within an Implicit Hierarchy of the Sciences Review of General Psychology. 8: 59-67. DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.8.1.59  0.324
2003 Simonton DK. Scientific creativity as constrained stochastic behavior: the integration of product, person, and process perspectives. Psychological Bulletin. 129: 475-94. PMID 12848217 DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.4.475  0.337
2003 Simonton DK. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of historical data. Annual Review of Psychology. 54: 617-40. PMID 12171999 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Psych.54.101601.145034  0.335
2001 Simonton DK. Talent Development as a Multidimensional, Multiplicative, and Dynamic Process Current Directions in Psychological Science. 10: 39-43. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00110  0.324
2000 Simonton DK. Creativity. Cognitive, personal, developmental, and social aspects. The American Psychologist. 55: 151-8. PMID 11392859 DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.55.1.151  0.349
2000 Simonton DK. The Music or the Words? Or How Important is the Libretto for an Opera's Aesthetic Success? Empirical Studies of the Arts. 18: 105-118. DOI: 10.2190/Xyf7-Juuh-Hedy-2E88  0.331
2000 Simonton DK. Statistical Correlations, Nomothetic Principles, and Exceptions to the Rule Politics and the Life Sciences. 19: 173-174. DOI: 10.1017/S0730938400014787  0.319
2000 Simonton DK. Creative Development as Acquired Expertise: Theoretical Issues and an Empirical Test Developmental Review. 20: 283-318. DOI: 10.1006/Drev.1999.0504  0.33
1999 Simonton DK. Creativity as Blind Variation and Selective Retention: Is the Creative Process Darwinian? Psychological Inquiry. DOI: 10.1207/S15327965Pli1004_4  0.34
1999 Simonton DK. Significant samples: The psychological study of eminent individuals Psychological Methods. 4: 425-451. DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.4.4.425  0.328
1998 Simonton DK. Masterpieces in Music and Literature: Historiometric Inquires Creativity Research Journal. 11: 103-110. DOI: 10.1207/S15326934Crj1102_2  0.318
1998 Simonton DK. Historiometric Methods in Social Psychology European Review of Social Psychology. 9: 267-293. DOI: 10.1080/14792779843000108  0.309
1998 Simonton DK. Fickle fashion versus immortal fame: Transhistorical assessments of creative products in the opera house. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 75: 198-210. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.75.1.198  0.311
1998 Simonton DK. Achieved eminence in minority and majority cultures: Convergence versus divergence in the assessments of 294 African Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 74: 804-817. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.3.804  0.314
1998 SIMONTON DK. Donald Campbell's Model of the Creative Process: Creativity as Blind Variation and Selective Retention The Journal of Creative Behavior. 32: 153-158. DOI: 10.1002/J.2162-6057.1998.Tb00812.X  0.331
1997 Simonton DK. Achievement domain and life expectancies in Japanese civilization. International Journal of Aging & Human Development. 44: 103-14. PMID 9169313 DOI: 10.2190/8Pr6-N48U-Nj9J-82Ub  0.309
1997 Simonton DK. Imagery, Style, and Content in Thirty-Seven Shakespeare Plays Empirical Studies of the Arts. 15: 15-20. DOI: 10.2190/Q3Uf-Vbkk-Xb5X-T2Kg  0.308
1997 Simonton DK. Creative productivity: A predictive and explanatory model of career trajectories and landmarks. Psychological Review. 104: 66-89. DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.104.1.66  0.344
1997 Simonton DK. Foreign influence and national achievement: The impact of open milieus on Japanese civilization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 72: 86-94. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.1.86  0.329
1997 MUMFORD MD, SIMONTON DK. Creativity in the Workplace: People, Problems, and Structures The Journal of Creative Behavior. 31: 1-6. DOI: 10.1002/J.2162-6057.1997.Tb00776.X  0.311
1995 Simonton DK. Drawing Inferences from Symphonic Programs: Musical Attributes versus Listener Attributions Music Perception. 12: 307-322. DOI: 10.2307/40286186  0.315
1995 Simonton DK. Behavioral Laws in Histories of Psychology: Psychological Science, Metascience, and the Psychology of Science Psychological Inquiry. 6: 89-114. DOI: 10.1207/S15327965Pli0602_1  0.332
1993 Simonton DK. Putting the Best Leaders in the White House: Personality, Policy, and Performance Political Psychology. 14: 537. DOI: 10.2307/3791713  0.319
1992 Simonton DK. Leaders of American psychology, 1879-1967: Career development, creative output, and professional achievement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 62: 5-17. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.62.1.5  0.328
1992 Simonton DK. Psychoeconomic creativity-How psychological? How economic? How creative?: A response to Rubenson and Runco New Ideas in Psychology. 10: 167-171. DOI: 10.1016/0732-118X(92)90025-U  0.339
1991 Simonton DK. Personality Correlates of Exceptional Personal Influence: A Note on Thorndike's (1950) Creators and Leaders Creativity Research Journal. 4: 67-78. DOI: 10.1080/10400419109534374  0.332
1991 Simonton DK. Emergence and realization of genius: The lives and works of 120 classical composers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 61: 829-840. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.61.5.829  0.338
1991 Simonton DK. Career landmarks in science: Individual differences and interdisciplinary contrasts. Developmental Psychology. 27: 119-130. DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.27.1.119  0.321
1990 Simonton DK. Political Pathology and Societal Creativity Creativity Research Journal. 3: 85-99. DOI: 10.1080/10400419009534339  0.348
1990 Simonton DK. Lexical choices and aesthetic success: A computer content analysis of 154 Shakespeare sonnets Computers and the Humanities. 24: 251-264. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00123412  0.32
1989 Simonton DK. The swan-song phenomenon: last-works effects for 172 classical composers. Psychology and Aging. 4: 42-7. PMID 2803611 DOI: 10.1037//0882-7974.4.1.42  0.314
1988 Simonton DK. Age and outstanding achievement: what do we know after a century of research? Psychological Bulletin. 104: 251-67. PMID 3054997 DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.104.2.251  0.353
1987 Simonton DK. Musical Aesthetics and Creativity in Beethoven: A Computer Analysis of 105 Compositions Empirical Studies of the Arts. 5: 87-104. DOI: 10.2190/B94K-Cp9N-Vut8-Rlkh  0.304
1987 Simonton DK. Presidential Inflexibility and Veto Behavior: Two Individual-Situational Interactions Journal of Personality. 55: 1-18. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-6494.1987.Tb00425.X  0.343
1986 Simonton DK. Presidential Greatness: The Historical Consensus and Its Psychological Significance Political Psychology. 7: 259. DOI: 10.2307/3791125  0.348
1986 Simonton DK. Popularity, content, and context in 37 Shakespeare plays Poetics. 15: 493-510. DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(86)90008-2  0.341
1985 Simonton DK. Quality, quantity, and age: the careers of ten distinguished psychologists. International Journal of Aging & Human Development. 21: 241-54. PMID 3830907 DOI: 10.2190/Kb7E-A45M-X8X7-Dqj4  0.328
1985 Simonton DK. The vice-presidential succession effect: Individual or situational basis? Political Behavior. 7: 79-99. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00987263  0.322
1984 Simonton DK. Leaders as eponyms: Individual and situational determinants of ruler eminence Journal of Personality. 52: 1-21. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-6494.1984.Tb00546.X  0.322
1984 Simonton DK. Creative productivity and age: A mathematical model based on a two-step cognitive process Developmental Review. 4: 77-111. DOI: 10.1016/0273-2297(84)90020-0  0.301
1984 Simonton DK. Scientific eminence historical and contemporary: A measurement assessment Scientometrics. 6: 169-182. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02016760  0.339
1983 Simonton DK. Intergenerational transfer of individual differences in hereditary monarchs: genetic, role-modeling, cohort, or sociocultural effects? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 44: 354-64. PMID 6834239 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.44.2.354  0.304
1981 Simonton DK. Presidential greatness and performance: Can we predict leadership in the White House?1 Journal of Personality. 49: 306-322. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-6494.1981.Tb00939.X  0.318
1980 Simonton DK. Thematic fame and melodic originality in classical music: A multivariate computer-content analysis1 Journal of Personality. 48: 206-219. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-6494.1980.Tb00828.X  0.309
1980 Simonton DK. Techno-scientific activity and war: A yearly time-series analysis, 1500-1903 A. D Scientometrics. 2: 251-255. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02016346  0.319
1979 Simonton DK. Was Napoleon a Military Genius? Score: Carlyle 1, Tolstoy 1 Psychological Reports. 44: 21-22. DOI: 10.2466/Pr0.1979.44.1.21  0.309
1978 Simonton DK. The Eminent Genius in History: the Critical Role of Creative Development Gifted Child Quarterly. 22: 187-195. DOI: 10.1177/001698627802200212  0.323
1976 Simonton DK. IDEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND CREATIVITY: A RE-EVALUATION OF A HYPOTHESIS Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal. 4: 203-207. DOI: 10.2224/Sbp.1976.4.2.203  0.326
1976 Simonton DK. The Causal Relation between War and Scientific Discovery Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 7: 133-144. DOI: 10.1177/002202217672002  0.351
1976 Simonton DK. The Sociopolitical Context of Philosophical Beliefs: A Transhistorical Causal Analysis Social Forces. 54: 513-523. DOI: 10.1093/Sf/54.3.513  0.36
1976 Simonton DK. Interdisciplinary and military determinants of scientific productivity: A cross-lagged correlation analysis Journal of Vocational Behavior. 9: 53-62. DOI: 10.1016/0001-8791(76)90006-3  0.324
1975 Simonton DK. Sociocultural context of individual creativity: a transhistorical time-series analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 32: 1119-33. PMID 1214216 DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.32.6.1119  0.334
1975 Simonton DK. INTERDISCIPLINARY CREATIVITY OVER HISTORICAL TIME: A CORRELATIONAL ANALYSIS OF GENERATIONAL FLUCTUATIONS Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal. 3: 181-188. DOI: 10.2224/Sbp.1975.3.2.181  0.328
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