Preface. Acknowledgements. Why Study Eminence? Part I – Overview and Issues 1. A Developmental Theory of Eminence R. S. Albert 2. Motivation and Creativity M. C. Csikszentmihalyi 3. The Mad Genius Controversy G. Becker Part II – Genius: Signs and Outcomes 1. William James on Exceptional Mental States: The 1896 Lowell Lectures E. Taylor 2. The Early Mental Traits of 300 Geniuses C. M. Cox 3. Toward a Behavioral Definition of Genius R. S. Albert 4. Age and Achievement D. K. Simonton Part III – Giftedness: Signs and Outcomes 1. Two Levels of Giftedness: Shall Ever the Twain Meet? R. S. Siegler and K. Kotovsky 2. Intelligence Among University Scientists J. Gibson and P. Light 3. What Do Tests Tell Us About Talents? M. A. Wallach Part IV – Social and Educational Influences on Creative Behavior and Exceptional Achievement 1. Hereditary Genius Revisited: Were Galton’s Missing Scientists the Aftermath of the Puritan Brain Drain to America? P. H. Gray 2. The Crystallizing Experience: Discovering an Intellectual Gift J. Walters and H. Gardner 3. The Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates’ Mutual Influences H. Zuckerman 4. Why Children Follow in their Parents’ Career Footsteps D. N. Laband and B. F. Lentz Part V – Family and Parental Influences on Creative Behavior and Exceptional Achievement 1. The Highly Effective Individual D. W. MacKinnon 2. Testing Aspects of Carl Rogers’s Theory of Creative Environments: Child-Rearing Antecedents of Creative Potential in Young Adolescents D. M. Harrington, J. H. Block and J. Block 3. A 40-Year Follow-up of Giftedness: Fulfillment and Unfulfillment M. Oden 4. Which of Those Young Women with Creative Potential Became Productive? Personality in College and Characteristics of Parents R. Helson 5. Home Environment and the Competitiveness of Highly Accomplished Individuals in Four Talent Fields J. A. Monsaas and G. Engelhard, Jr. Part VI – Personality Dispositions to Creative Behavior and Exceptional Achievement 1. Personality Correlates of Exceptional Personal Influence: A Note on Thorndike’s (1950) Creators and Leaders D. K. Simonton 2. Personality, Research Creativity, and Teaching Effectiveness J. P. Rushton, H. G. Murray and S. V. Paunonen 3. Personality Consistency: Eminent Architects 25 Years Later S. Z. Dudek and W. B. Hall 4. Creative Writers F. Barron Part VII – Personal Dynamics and Creative Problems in Exceptional Achievement 1. Great Wits and Madness G. Claridge 2. Mood Disorders and Patterns of Creativity in British Writers and Artists K. R. Jamison 3. William James and the Twice-Born Sick Soul C. Strout 4. Prime Ministers and the Search for Love H. Berrington 5. A Mathematician’s Apology G. H. Hardy. Name Index. Subject Index.
Biography
Robert S. Albert
