Daydreams: How Fantasies Shape Your Future
How is it that an activity considered a lapse in attention can bring about benefits believed to result only from the strict exercise of cognitive control? Let’s hear it for daydreaming!
Psychology Today
What is Talent – and Can Science Spot What We Will Be Best At?
Practice and our genes are not the only factors when it comes to developing special abilities.
the guardian | The Observer
From Contretemps to Creativity
For some people, hardship can trigger creative growth.
Scientific American Mind
Confessions of a Late Bloomer
We have fixed notions about the time course of success and the nature of talent that encourage us to write off the very people who are most likely to (eventually) change the world.
Psychology Today
The Real Neuroscience of Creativity
Thoughtful cognitive neuroscientists are on the forefront of investigating what actually happens in the brain during the creative process. And their findings are overturning conventional notions surrounding the neuroscience of creativity.
Scientific American
The Need for Pretend Play in Child Development (co-authored with Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer)
Over the last seventy-five years a number of theorists and researchers have identified the values of such imaginative play as a vital component to the normal development of a child.
Scientific American
The Real Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness
The romantic notion that mental illness and creativity are linked is so prominent in the public consciousness that it is rarely challenged. But what really is the link?
Scientific American
How Renaissance People Think
Are you more of a rational or intuitive thinker?
Scientific American
After the Show: The Many Faces of the Performer
The many complexities and sensitivities of creative people.
Huffington Post
How to Win American Idol
Cracking the pop-stardom code: It’s not talent or looks– it’s something far more improbable.
Psychology Today
Reasoning Training Increases Brain Connectivity Associated with High-Level Cognition
In recent years, neuroscientists have discovered a large-scale brain network critical for novel and complex goal-directed problem solving. Crucially, the coordination among the key players of this network is substantially affected by training and experience.
Scientific American
Gorillas Agree: Human Frontal Cortex is Nothing Special
In a humbling moment for our species, recent research suggests that when it comes to the frontal lobes, we’re not so special after all.
Scientific American
Why Education Needs More Radioactive Spiders
The important role that identity and passion plays in education.
Scientific American
Profiling Serial Creators
Every single day, all across the globe, extraordinarily creative and talented students sit in our classrooms bored out of their minds.
Scientific American
American education and the IQ trap
What does it mean to be gifted in the United States?
L.A. Times
Gifted Ed. Is Crucial, But the Label Isn’t (co-authored with Scott J. Peters, Michael S. Matthews, Matthew T. McBee, D. Betsy McCoach)
Giving students a challenging education is important, regardless of whether they have been designated as ‘gifted’
Education Week
In Defense of Intelligent Testing
Why we need less intelligence testing, and more intelligent testing.
Scientific American
Finding Creativity on IQ tests
How creativity can be measured by existing IQ tests.
Scientific American
The End of Education as We Know It
Using online media, adventurous educators are engaging students and teachers in fresh ways.
design mind
Is Your Child Ungifted?
Worried that your own child is ungifted? Relax.
Scientific American
Why Passion is a Gift
Why don’t we view passion and interest as gifts?
Psychology Today
The Need to Believe in the Ability of Disability (co-authored with Kevin McGrew)
Our society has clear expectations regarding students who don’t fit the norm.
The Creativity Post
Who is Currently Identified as Gifted in the United States?
A recent national survey of state policies and practices reveals how the United States defines giftedness, identifies giftedness, and accommodates gifted minority students.
The Creativity Post
Why Your Passion for Work Could Ruin Your Career
While passion seems clearly desirable, recent psychological research suggests that not all forms are adaptive.
Harvard Business Review
Increase Your Passion for Work Without Becoming Obsessed
Is obsessive passion ever helpful? What should you do if you recognize that your passion for work is not harmonious, but obsessive?
Harvard Business Review
Why Inspiration Matters
In a culture obsessed with measuring talent and ability, we often overlook the important role of inspiration.
Harvard Business Review
Openness to Experience and Creative Achievement
Openness to experience– the drive for cognitive exploration of inner and outer experience– is the personality trait most consistently associated with creativity.
Scientific American
How to Spot a Narcissist
Welcome to the contradictory universe of narcissism.
Psychology Today
23 Signs You’re Secretly a Narcissist Masquerading as a Sensitive Introvert
Sensitive introvert or covert narcissist?
Scientific American
A Call for New Measures of Asperger’s and Schizotypy
Our current measurements of Asperger’s and Schizotypy are woefully incomplete.
Scientific American