James C Kaufman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 182040 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James C Kaufman |
| NOMBRES | James C |
| APELLIDO | Kaufman |
| FIRMA | KAUFMAN J C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0595-2820 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 93 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 168 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A quick way of counting the muses in German speakers
Testing a 20-item version of the German-language K-DOCS • Data from five samples (N = 2,144) were analyzed • Five-factor structure is retained in the short version • Scalar measurement invariance regarding gender • Validity correlations are comparable with the standard form The Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS) is a standard self-report instrument for the assessment of creativity. The original K-DOCS comprises 50 items that assess five…
Predicting creativity from personality traits and overexcitabilities
This cross-cultural study examined how demographic factors, the Big Five personality traits, and overexcitabilities predict creativity across five domains: everyday, scholarly, performance, scientific, and artistic. Data were collected from 1020 university students (407 males, 613 females) enrolled at four universities across the United States (n = 505) and Lebanon (n = 515). Using domain-specific self-report measures of creativity, the study inv…
The Ecology of Creative Engagement
This study introduces a methodologically novel approach to creativity research by simultaneously exploring creative production, consumption, and practice within a unified research design. This integration enables the first systematic analysis of how these three forms of creative engagement co-occur and interact across multiple domains in university students. Participants reported on their creative achievements, time investment, aspirations, compa…
Sequential thinking prompts for creative problem solving
Background To foster creativity in 21st century education, it is necessary to identify efficient instructional strategies capable of engaging and developing different thinking skills relevant to creativity. Aims This study examined how the use of sequential thinking prompts and engagement in key creative subprocesses enhanced creative problem solving. Methods A sample of 364 university students were randomly assigned to one of four experimental c…
Mapping creativity in the Pisa 2022 student and context questionnaires
Response to “Comment on the Process Definition of Creativity”
Dr Weisberg has presented a commentary on our paper, The Process Definition of Creativity, in which he formulates criticisms of several elements of the process definition that we propose. Here, we
Do You Think You Are Creative? Patterns of Self-Perceived Creativity in Adolescents and Young Adults
An important step in understanding domain-specific qualities of creativity is determining what patterns exist in self-perceived creativity across domains and how these patterns associate with other characteristics relevant to creativity. In two studies involving high school (Study 1) and undergraduate (Study 2) students, hierarchical cluster analyses revealed four clusters in self-perceived creativity: “I am creative,” “I am not creative,” “I mig…
Development and Behavioral Validation of the Dark Creativity Deception Battery ( DCDB )
Although creativity is commonly associated with positive outcomes, emerging research has highlighted its darker side, particularly in facilitating deceptive and unethical behavior. This study introduces the Dark Creativity Deception Battery (DCDB), a novel task‐based assessment designed to measure creative deception across prosocial, self‐serving, and antisocial contexts. Participants ( N = 755) were recruited from India, USA, and Austria. They c…
The association between elementary school students’ everyday creative experience, creative behavior, and daily emotions
Cultivating creativity in language and writing for grade 6 students in minority areas of northwest China
Condensing the Muses
Creative self-perceptions reflect a unique blend of motivational, metacognitive, and personal characteristics, both shaping and being shaped by people’s creative experiences. The Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS) is a domain-specific measure that captures people’s self-oriented views across five creativity domains: Everyday, Scholarly, Performance, Scientific, and Artistic. The scale’s complex, multidimensional structure comes with con…
Creativity Studies Continues to Evolve
In 2009, there was a special issue of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts devoted to rising stars in the field with 13 papers representing 15 young scholars. In the years, the field has grown and advanced. This special issue offers 19 papers by rising stars in the field of Creativity Studies. Papers focus on an array of topics, with the creative process, education, everyday creativity, theory, and measurement leading the way. There…
The Ties That Bind
Self-reported dark creativity has been related to lower concerns for all moral foundations, especially among those with dark personality traits. The present study aimed to extend these findings using real-world divergent thinking tasks with ethical and unethical instructions. Data (N = 1346, males = 388, females = 840, Mage = 20.93, SD = 5.48) were collected on creative performance, moral foundations, and dark personality traits, including trait …
Recent Trends in Creativity Research
Although there have been several analyses of creativity scholarship and its changing emphases over time, these patterns and their trajectory over time have not been analyzed at a journal-by-journal level. Yet creativity journals are not interchangeable, and understanding how they differentially cover core topics can offer insight into the growing field of creativity studies. This study analyzed the listed keywords for articles published in four m…
Little legacies
Adams-Price and Morse offer a wonderfully comprehensive overview of the benefits of creativity for older adults. In this commentary, we expand on a topic they briefly mention: the idea of leaving a creative legacy. We briefly explore research on meaning in older adults, then discuss Rank and Lifton’s ideas about symbolic immortality and the desire to leave behind a legacy. Creative works are on pathway, but we emphasize that it is not only Big-C …
Creative Subprocess Frequencies and Their Relation to Personal Characteristics and Product Creativity
Most research on the creative process has focused on idea generation, and the prevalence and influence of many other creative subprocesses remain poorly understood. To clarify different subprocesses' respective roles in creative work, this study investigated their frequencies and associations with creativity‐related personal characteristics and product creativity. Undergraduate students ( n = 266) articulated their creative thought processes via …
Social Change Creativity
This paper extends the growing conversations around creativity's metamorphic capacities for good to propose and explore Social Change Creativity (SCC) as a distinct creative domain in which individuals and communities engage in the creative process to combat social injustice and manifest equitable social outcomes. SCC involves the use of creative strengths and imagination to promote social equity and justice. Drawing on the Amusement Park Theoret…
Pisa 2022 Creative Thinking Assessment
The OECD's PISA program assesses 15‐year‐old students globally in key competencies every 3 years, providing influential data on education quality and spurring policy debates. In the latest cycle, the innovation domain focused on creative thinking, assessing over 140,000 students across 60+ countries, in the largest study of adolescent creativity to date. This innovation domain included a cognitive test covering multiple creative thinking processe…
Two's Company
Group diversity is an active topic in research as studies examine how differences in background, culture, job position, gender, and ethnicity can all impact group creativity. One relatively overlooked component is how diversity in academic knowledge affects group and individual creativity. In this study, 56 graduate students from a research university in the United States were paired into a dyad with another academically similar or diverse studen…
What Could Go Wrong? Anxiety Fuels, but Optimism Buffers Negative Counterfactual Divergent Thinking
Anxiety‐driven counterfactual thinking can be a slippery slope. Building on the premise that both positive and negative emotions can impact creativity, the present study examines how trait anxiety, optimism, and other mental health factors like therapy experience shape outputs in divergent thinking (DT) tasks. Using an online sample ( N = 647), the study introduces counterfactual DT tasks, where participants are prompted to respond to how a situa…
The Impact of Positive Versus Negative Exemplar‐Based Instructions on a Creative Writing Task
Some types of instructions for creativity tasks (such as explicitly telling people to be creative) can boost performance. Showing people examples or telling them ways of approaching the problem before they begin a creativity task can help, but results are mixed about whether it is better to emphasize positive examples/approaches that can be emulated or negative examples/approaches that should be avoided. In this study, 198 participants wrote two …
The Products of the Process
The traditionally studied positive outcomes of creativity tend to be product‐focused, such as Big‐C contributions, good grades, or strong work performance. This paper makes an argument for the importance of less‐discussed products of the process—the benefits that arise from being creative, regardless of one's abilities or level of achievement. These positive outcomes are more tied to such meaning‐related concepts as self‐understanding, feeling on…
Work Orientation's Impact on Layperson Ratings of Creativity, Intelligence, Conscientiousness, and Hiring Likelihood
Most previous studies on creativity and motivation looked into the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations on creativity. However, there have been newer motivation approaches related to work orientation and needs that may offer a chance to gain new insight into how people think about creativity. The present study used a hypothetical hiring scenario to assess layperson beliefs about creativity, conscientiousness, intelligence, and the likel…
The Process Definition of Creativity
The “standard” definition of creativity as novel and useful describes creative products, but creativity is constituted by processes. This misalignment contributes to the oft-noted challenges of operationalizing creativity. Here, we distinguish creativity as a process from creativity as an attribute (i.e. “creative-ness”). Operating from a priori premises of creativity theory, we develop a process definition of creativity. Specifically, creativity…
In Quest of Creativity
In this exchange, the authors each address five questions about creativity, and then provide a final synthesizing response. The five questions they address are: (1) What is creativity? Are there different processes, types, or kinds of creativity, and if so, what are they? (2) What are the major obstacles to people thinking and acting creatively? (3) Do you believe that creativity is intrinsically positive? Why or why not? (4) What are the main wa…
Beyond Big and Little
Most investigations of creativity tend to take one of two directions: everyday creativity (also called "little-c"), which can be found in nearly all people, and eminent creativity (also called "Big-C"), which is reserved for the great. In this paper, the authors propose a Four C model of creativity that expands this dichotomy. Specifically, the authors add the idea of "mini-c," creativity inherent in the learning process, and Pro-c, the developme…
Pisa 2022 Creative Thinking Assessment
The OECD's PISA program assesses 15‐year‐old students globally in key competencies every 3 years, providing influential data on education quality and spurring policy debates. In the latest cycle, the innovation domain focused on creative thinking, assessing over 140,000 students across 60+ countries, in the largest study of adolescent creativity to date. This innovation domain included a cognitive test covering multiple creative thinking processe…
Identifying and Assessing Creativity as a Component of Giftedness
Most theories of giftedness include creativity as a central component. Creativity assessment has a key role, therefore, in measuring giftedness. This article reviews the state of the creativity assessment, from divergent thinking tests (including the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking) to the consensual assessment technique to rating scales and self assessments. Despite the many flaws present in every type of creativity measurement, there are co…
Creativity in the age of generative AI
The Propulsion Model of Creative Contributions Applied to the Arts and Letters
This article applies a propulsion model of creative contributions to the arts and letters. The basic notion is that creative contributions differ not only in the amounts of creativity they display but also in the types of creative contributions they make. The article opens with a general discussion of creative contributions and next considers some existing models of creative contributions. It then describes the propulsion model for understanding …
Creative Subprocess Frequencies and Their Relation to Personal Characteristics and Product Creativity
Most research on the creative process has focused on idea generation, and the prevalence and influence of many other creative subprocesses remain poorly understood. To clarify different subprocesses' respective roles in creative work, this study investigated their frequencies and associations with creativity‐related personal characteristics and product creativity. Undergraduate students ( n = 266) articulated their creative thought processes via …
Teacher implicit beliefs of creativity
Perfectionism
The Products of the Process
The traditionally studied positive outcomes of creativity tend to be product‐focused, such as Big‐C contributions, good grades, or strong work performance. This paper makes an argument for the importance of less‐discussed products of the process—the benefits that arise from being creative, regardless of one's abilities or level of achievement. These positive outcomes are more tied to such meaning‐related concepts as self‐understanding, feeling on…
Blurring Boundaries
People who self-categorize as bisexual pose a challenge to a simplistic notion of linear separability/discreteness, as indicated by beliefs that “bisexuality does not exist.” The authors thus examined whether by blurring intergroup boundaries that challenge monosexuality, bisexual women would evince higher levels of self-assessed creativity. Bisexual women's self-assessed creativity was higher than lesbian and heterosexual women's. The latter two…
Are Cheaters Common or Creative
The Cost of the Muse
Although several investigations have found that poets tend to die younger than other types of writers, these studies often do not take into account variables of gender and culture. This study examines 1,987 deceased writers from four different cultures: American, Chinese, Turkish, and Eastern European. Both male and female poets had the shortest life spans of all four types of writers (fiction writers, poets, playwrights, and non-fiction writers)…
White-Black and White-Hispanic Differences on Fluid and Crystallized Abilities by Age across the 11- to 94-Year Range
Standardization data for the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT) were used to examine white-black and white-Hispanic differences on the Horn-Cattell crystallized and fluid constructs at several age groups across the broad 11- to 94-year span. Samples included 1,547 white, 241 black, and 140 Hispanic persons. Multivariate analyses with educational attainment covaried yielded only one significant finding: the white-black differenc…
Factor Structure of the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (Kait) for Whites, African Americans, and Hispanics
Factor-analyzed data for three race/ethnic groups on the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT) for people ages 11 to 93 are reported. Factor structures for Whites (N= 1,535), African Americans (N = 226), and Hispanics (N = 140) yielded Fluid and Crystallized dimensions that were congruent across race/ethnic groups and provided construct validity evidence for each subsample. The "g" factors for the three samples yielded congruence …
Emotional intelligence as an aspect of general intelligence
R. D. Roberts, M. Zeidner, and G. Matthews (2001) have carefully examined the controversial issue of whether emotional intelligence (EI) should be classified as an intelligence and whether EI's constructs meet the same psychometric standards as general intelligence's constructs. This article casts their efforts into the framework of both historical and modern IQ-testing theory and research. It details David Wechsler's attempts to integrate EI int…
Emotional intelligence as an aspect of general intelligence
The Propulsion Model of Creative Contributions Applied to the Arts and Letters
This article applies a propulsion model of creative contributions to the arts and letters. The basic notion is that creative contributions differ not only in the amounts of creativity they display but also in the types of creative contributions they make. The article opens with a general discussion of creative contributions and next considers some existing models of creative contributions. It then describes the propulsion model for understanding …
Creativity and confidence
Creativity and confidence
The Cost of the Muse
Although several investigations have found that poets tend to die younger than other types of writers, these studies often do not take into account variables of gender and culture. This study examines 1,987 deceased writers from four different cultures: American, Chinese, Turkish, and Eastern European. Both male and female poets had the shortest life spans of all four types of writers (fiction writers, poets, playwrights, and non-fiction writers)…
Bridging generality and specificity
One of the most contentious areas in creativity theory is the question of domain specificity. How we conceptualize creativity — as something that transcends content domains, or as something that varies depending on the domain in question — has important implications for both creativity research and creativity training programs. The Amusement Park Theoretical (APT) model of creativity is the first creativity theory to successfully bridge the gap b…
Toward a broader conception of creativity
In this article the authors argue that a new category of creativity, called “mini-c” creativity, is needed to advance creativity theory and research. Mini-c creativity differs from little-c (everyday) or Big-C (eminent) creativity as it refers to the creative processes involved in the construction of personal knowledge and understanding. The authors discuss how the category of mini-c creativity addresses gaps in current conceptions of creativity,…
Malevolent Creativity
Although creativity is often seen as an aspect of self-fulfillment, it is important to recognize its social effects. The traditional view is that these should be beneficial, creativity thus being benevolent. However, those who wish to do deliberate harm to others can also display creativity, in this case malevolent creativity. This is governed by the same principles as benevolent creativity, differing only in its intended purpose. Like any creati…
Gender Differences in Creativity
Research on gender differences in creativity, including creativity test scores, creative achievements, and self‐reported creativity is reviewed, as are theories that have been offered to explain such differences and available evidence that supports or refutes such theories. This is a difficult arena in which to conduct research, but there is a consistent lack of gender differences both in creativity test scores and in the creative accomplishments…
Essentials of creativity assessment
Essentials of Creativity Assessment presents balanced coverage of the wide variety of assessments that can be used to gauge creativity, enabling mental health professionals to select the creativity assessment method that best fits the situations, groups of people, and programs that are involved."--BOOK JACKET
Beyond Big and Little
Most investigations of creativity tend to take one of two directions: everyday creativity (also called "little-c"), which can be found in nearly all people, and eminent creativity (also called "Big-C"), which is reserved for the great. In this paper, the authors propose a Four C model of creativity that expands this dichotomy. Specifically, the authors add the idea of "mini-c," creativity inherent in the learning process, and Pro-c, the developme…
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators. This handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important information. It covers such diverse topics as the brain, education, business, and world cultures. The first section, 'Basic Concepts', is designed to in…
The Dark Side of Creativity
With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others, such as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts. This book brings together essays written by experts from various fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineerin…
Change in Reputation as an Index of Genius and Eminence
Many previous investigations have relied on entries in encyclopedias or similar sources (e.g., Who's Who) to quantify eminence and achievement. The premises in these earlier studies have been that eminence is a function of reputation and that reputation is accurately captured by encyclopedias and the like. In this article, the authors examine reputational changes from era to era. They expected that a comparison of encyclopedias from different era…
The Cambridge handbook of creativity
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers, and educators. This handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important information. It covers such diverse topics as the brain, education, business, and world cultures. The first section, "Basic Concepts," is designed to i…
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Identifying and Assessing Creativity as a Component of Giftedness
Most theories of giftedness include creativity as a central component. Creativity assessment has a key role, therefore, in measuring giftedness. This article reviews the state of the creativity assessment, from divergent thinking tests (including the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking) to the consensual assessment technique to rating scales and self assessments. Despite the many flaws present in every type of creativity measurement, there are co…
Assessing creativity with self-report scales
This article reviews recent developments in the assessment of creativity using self-report scales. We focus on four new and promising scales: the Creative Achievement Questionnaire, the Biographical Inventory of Creative Behaviors, the revised Creative Behavior Inventory, and the Creative Domain Questionnaire. For each scale, we review evidence for reliability, validity, and structure, and we discuss important methodological features for users to…
Counting the muses
If one takes a domain-specific approach to studying creativity, 1 key question is to determine the most important domains to measure. One approach is to look at common perceptions of creativity. Building on past studies that used self-report questionnaires, this study presents a new instrument, the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale. A factor analysis of 2,318 college student responses led to 50 items and 5 broad domains: Self/Everyday, Scholarl…
East-West Cultural Bias and Creativity
East-West Cultural Bias and Creativity: We are Alike and we are Different." Gifted and Talented International, 27(1), pp. 115–117
Consensus and contrasts in consumers' cinematic assessments
Motion pictures provide among the most conspicuous manifestations of worldwide popular culture. One specific manifestation of this universal presence appears in the cinematic assessments compiled and updated on Internet Web sites. This empirical inquiry investigated the consumer ratings that the Internet Movie Database used to determine the “Top-250” all-time great movies. Of particular interest was how these ratings depended on gender (male vs. …
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