James C Kaufman
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James C. Kaufman (1974-) is an assistant professor at the California State University at San Bernardino, where he is the director of the Learning Research Institute. He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Southern California, where he worked with John Horn. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in Cognitive Psychology, where he worked with Robert J. Sternberg. Kaufman then worked as an Associate Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service in the Center for New Constructs before rejoining academia.
With Sternberg and Jean Pretz, he developed the propulsion model of creative contributions, outlined in The Creativity Conundrum (Psychology Press, 2002). He coined “the Sylvia Plath Effect,” after finding that female poets were more likely to be mentally ill than other writers, in a paper in Journal of Creative Behavior, and his recent work on poets dying young has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, BBC, CNN, and newspapers and magazines across the world. Other books include Intelligence Applied (with Sternberg and Elena Grigorenko; Oxford, in press) and serving as the co-editor of The Evolution of Intelligence (with Sternberg; Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002), Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse (with John Baer, Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004), Gender Differences in Mathematics (with Ann Gallagher; Cambridge, 2004), The International Handbook of Creativity (with Sternberg; Cambridge, 2006), and Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development (with Baer; Cambridge, 2006.
He is a co-editor on the new journal of the American Psychological Association's Division 10, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, which begins publication in 2006. He has served as the Associate Editor of Research in the Schools; is currently the Contributing Editor to the Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving; and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Creative Behavior, Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, and two other journals. He has served as the guest editor for a special issue of Inquiry (2003) devoted to creativity across cultures, and is guest-editing (with Baer) a special issue of Creativity Research Journal devoted to Paul Torrance. He has published over 75 papers in numerous books and journals, including American Psychologist, Annual Review of Psychology, Intelligence, Review of General Psychology, Leadership Quarterly, and Psychological Assessment. He received the 2003 Daniel E. Berlyne Award from Division 10 of the American Psychological Association for outstanding research by a junior scholar, and is currently a Member at Large for Division 10
