Two decades of research
Scientific Publications
A complete archive of Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman's peer-reviewed scientific publications on intelligence, creativity, personality, narcissism, well-being, and the science of human potential — published in Journal of Personality, Intelligence, Nature Scientific Reports, NeuroImage, Frontiers in Psychology, and other leading journals.
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Selected Publications
- Skvarc, D., Patafio, B., Mayshak, R., Hyder, S., Kaufman, S.B., & Neumann, C. (2026). Beyond good and evil: A person-centered analysis of benevolent vs. malevolent interpersonal dispositional styles. Personality and Individual Differences, 259. pdf
- Neumann, C.S., Kaufman, S.B., & ten Brinke, L. (2025). Citizens in democratic countries have more benevolent traits, fewer malevolent traits, and greater well-being. Nature Scientific Reports. pdf
- Lin, S., Ivcevic, Z., Kashdan, T. B., & Kaufman, S. B. (2024). Curious and persistent, but not consistent: Self-regulation traits and creativity. The Journal of Creative Behavior. Advance online publication. pdf
- Savani, K., Morris, M.W., Fincher, K., Lu, Jackson, & Kaufman, S.B. (2022). Experiential learning of cultural norms: The role of implicit and explicit attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. pdf
- Jauk, E., Ulbrich, L., Jorshick, P., Hofler, M., Kaufman, S.B., & Kanske, P. (2022). The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: an individual data meta-analysis. Journal of Personality. doi:10.1111/jopy.12692. pdf
- Chrysikou, E.G., Jacial, C., Yaden, D.B., van Dam, W., Kaufman, S.B., et al. (2020). Differences in Brain Activity Patterns During Creative Idea Generation Between Eminent and Non-eminent Thinkers. NeuroImage. pdf
- Kaufman, S.B., & Jauk, E. (2020). Healthy Selfishness and Pathological Altruism: Measuring Two Paradoxical Forms of Selfishness. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
- Kaufman, S.B., Yaden, D.B., Hyde, E., & Tsukayama, E. (2019). The Light vs. Dark Triad of personality: Contrasting two very different profiles of human nature. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
- Kaufman, S.B. (2018). Self-Actualizing people in the 21st century: Integration with contemporary theory and research on personality and well-being. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. pdf
- Kaufman, S.B., Weiss, B., Miller, J.D., & Campbell, W.K. (2018). Clinical correlates of vulnerable and grandiose narcissism: A personality perspective. Journal of Personality Disorders, 32, 384. pdf
- Yaden, D.B., Kaufman, S.B., Hyde, E., Chirico, A., Gaggioli, A., Wei Zhang, J., & Keltner, D. (2018). The development of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S): A multifactorial measure for a complex emotion. The Journal of Positive Psychology. pdf
- Kaufman, S.B. (2018). My quest to understand human intelligence. To appear in R.J. Sternberg (Ed.), The Nature of Human Intelligence. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pdf
- Oleynick, V.C., DeYoung, C.G., Hyde, E., Kaufman, S.B., Beaty, R.E., & Silvia, P.J. (2017). Openness/Intellect: The core of the creative personality. In G.J. Feist, R. Reiter-Palmon, & J.C. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Personality Research. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pdf
- Sun, J., Kaufman, S.B., & Smillie, L.D. (2017). Unique associations between Big Five personality aspects and multiple dimensions of well-being. Journal of Personality. pdf
- Kaufman, S.B., Quilty, L.C., Grazioplene, R.G., Hirsh, J.B., Gray, J.R., Peterson, J.B., & DeYoung, C.G. (2015). Openness to Experience and Intellect differentially predict creative achievement in the arts and sciences. Journal of Personality, 84, 248–258. pdf
- Beaty, R.E., Benedek, M., Kaufman, S.B., & Silvia, P.J. (2015). Default and executive network coupling supports creative idea production. Nature Scientific Reports. pdf
- Kaufman, S.B., & Duckworth, A.L. (2015). World-class expertise: A developmental model. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. pdf
- Kaufman, S.B., Reynolds, M.R., Liu, X., Kaufman, A.S., & McGrew, K.S. (2012). Are cognitive g and academic achievement g one and the same g? An exploration on the Woodcock-Johnson and Kaufman tests. Intelligence, 40, 123–138. pdf
- Kaufman, S.B., DeYoung, C.G., Gray, J.R., Jimenez, L., Brown, J.B., & Mackintosh, N. (2010). Implicit learning as an ability. Cognition, 116, 321–340. pdf
Full archive
Complete list, by year
2025
- Graziosi, M., Rhode, J.S., Lake, S., Lucas, P., Kaufman, S.B., & Yaden, D.B. (2025). Developing a short form of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-SF) in psychedelic samples. PLOS ONE. pdf ↗
- Neumann, C.S., Kaufman, S.B., & ten Brinke, L. (2025). Citizens in democratic countries have more benevolent traits, fewer malevolent traits, and greater well-being. Nature Scientific Reports. pdf ↗
- Maples, S.T., Neumann, C.S., & Kaufman, S.B. (2025). Profiling narcissism: Evidence for grandiose-vulnerable and other subtypes. Journal of Research in Personality, 115. pdf ↗
2022
- Jauk, E., Ulbrich, L., Jorshick, P., Hofler, M., Kaufman, S.B., & Kanske, P. (2022). The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: an individual data meta-analysis. Journal of Personality. doi:10.1111/jopy.12692. pdf ↗
- Savani, K., Morris, M.W., Fincher, K., Lu, Jackson, & Kaufman, S.B. (2022). Experiential learning of cultural norms: The role of implicit and explicit attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. pdf ↗
2020
- Neumann, C.S., Kaufman, S.B., Brinke, L., Bryce, Y., Hyde, E., & Tsukayama, E. (2020). Light and dark trait subtypes of human personality—A multi-study person-centered approach. Personality and Individual Differences. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., & Jauk, E. (2020). Healthy Selfishness and Pathological Altruism: Measuring Two Paradoxical Forms of Selfishness. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf ↗
- Chrysikou, E.G., Jacial, C., Yaden, D.B., van Dam, W., Kaufman, S.B., et al. (2020). Differences in Brain Activity Patterns During Creative Idea Generation Between Eminent and Non-eminent Thinkers. NeuroImage. pdf ↗
- Chrysikou, E.G., Wetz, C., Yaden, D.B., Kaufman, S.B., Bacon, D., Wintering, N.A., Jung, R.E., & Newberg, A.B. (2020). Differences in brain morphometry associated with creative performance in high- and average-creative achievers. NeuroImage. pdf ↗
2018
- Kaufman, S.B. (2018). Self-Actualizing people in the 21st century: Integration with contemporary theory and research on personality and well-being. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., Weiss, B., Miller, J.D., & Campbell, W.K. (2018). Clinical correlates of vulnerable and grandiose narcissism: A personality perspective. Journal of Personality Disorders, 32, 384. pdf ↗
- Jauk, E., & Kaufman, S.B. (2018). The higher the score, the darker the core: The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf ↗
- Yaden, D.B., Kaufman, S.B., Hyde, E., Chirico, A., Gaggioli, A., Wei Zhang, J., & Keltner, D. (2018). The development of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S): A multifactorial measure for a complex emotion. The Journal of Positive Psychology. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B. (2018). My quest to understand human intelligence. To appear in R.J. Sternberg (Ed.), The Nature of Human Intelligence. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pdf ↗
- Gotlieb, R.J.M., Hyde, E., Immordino-Yang, M.H., & Kaufman, S.B. (2018). Imagination is the seed of creativity. To appear in J.C. Kaufman & R.J. Sternberg (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pdf ↗
- Sobkow, A., Traczyk, J., Kaufman, S.B., & Nosal, C. (2018). The structure of intuitive abilities and their relationships with intelligence and Openness to Experience. Intelligence, 67, 1–10. pdf ↗
2017
- Oleynick, V.C., DeYoung, C.G., Hyde, E., Kaufman, S.B., Beaty, R.E., & Silvia, P.J. (2017). Openness/Intellect: The core of the creative personality. In G.J. Feist, R. Reiter-Palmon, & J.C. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Personality Research. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pdf ↗
- Grohman, M.G., Ivcevic, Z., Silvia, P., & Kaufman, S.B. (2017). The role of passion and persistence in creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. pdf ↗
- Sun, J., Kaufman, S.B., & Smillie, L.D. (2017). Unique associations between Big Five personality aspects and multiple dimensions of well-being. Journal of Personality. pdf ↗
- Goodman, F.R., Disabato, D.J., Kashdan, T.B., & Kaufman, S.B. (2017). Measuring well-being: A comparison of subjective well-being and PERMA. Journal of Positive Psychology. pdf ↗
2016
- Gottlieb, R., Hyde, E., Immordino-Yang, M.H., & Kaufman, S.B. (2016). Cultivating the social-emotional imagination in gifted education: insights from educational neuroscience. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. pdf ↗
- Gotlieb, R., Jahner, E., Immordino-Yang, M. H., & Kaufman, S. B. (2016). How social-emotional imagination facilitates deep learning and creativity in the classroom. In R. A. Beghetto & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), Nurturing creativity in the classroom (2nd Ed.). New York: Cambridge. pdf ↗
- Seligman, M.E.P., Forgeard, M., & Kaufman, S.B. (2016). Creativity and aging: What we can make with what we have left. In Seligman, M.E.P., Railton, P., Baumeister, R.F., & Sripada, C. (Eds.), Homo Prospectus. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B. (2016). Commentary on Kovacs and Conway, Process Overlap Theory: A Unified Account of the General Factor of Intelligence. Psychological Inquiry, 27, 229–230. pdf ↗
- Geher, G.G., Kaufman, S.B., Garcia, J.R., Kaufman, J.C., & Dawson, B.B. (2016). The validity and structure of mating intelligence. Evolution, Mind and Behavior, 14, 1–22. pdf ↗
2015
- Kaufman, S.B., Quilty, L.C., Grazioplene, R.G., Hirsh, J.B., Gray, J.R., Peterson, J.B., & DeYoung, C.G. (2015). Openness to Experience and Intellect differentially predict creative achievement in the arts and sciences. Journal of Personality, 84, 248–258. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., & Duckworth, A.L. (2015). World-class expertise: A developmental model. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. pdf ↗
- Beaty, R.E., Kaufman, S.B., Bender, M., Jung, R.E., Kenett, Y.N., Jauk, E., Neubauer, A.C., & Silvia, P.J. (2015). Personality and complex brain networks: The role of openness to experience in default network efficiency. Human Brain Mapping. pdf ↗
- Beaty, R.E., Benedek, M., Kaufman, S.B., & Silvia, P.J. (2015). Default and executive network coupling supports creative idea production. Nature Scientific Reports. pdf ↗
2014
- Kaufman, S.B. (2014). A proposed integration of the expert performance and individual differences approaches to the study of elite performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:707. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., & Paul, E.S. (2014). Creativity and schizophrenia spectrum disorders across the arts and sciences. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1145. pdf ↗
- Kozbelt, A., Kaufman, S.B., Walder, D.J., Ospina, L.H., & Kim, J. (2014). The evolutionary genetics of the creativity-psychosis connection. In J.C. Kaufman (Ed.), Creativity and mental illness. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., Kozbelt, A., Silvia, P., Kaufman, J.C., Ramesh, S., & Feist, G.J. (2014). Who finds Bill Gates sexy? Creative mate preferences as a function of cognitive ability, personality, and creative achievement. Journal of Creative Behavior. pdf ↗
2013
- Kaufman, J.C., Kaufman, S.B., & Plucker, J.A. (2013). Contemporary theories of intelligence. In J. Reisberg (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology (pp. 811–822). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B. (2013). Opening up openness to experience: A four-factor model and relations to creative achievement in the arts and sciences. Journal of Creative Behavior, 47, 233–255. pdf ↗
- McMillan, R., Kaufman, S.B., & Singer, J.L. (2013). Ode to positive constructive daydreaming. Frontiers in Perception Science, 4:626. pdf ↗
- Forgeard, M. J. C., Kaufman, S. B., & Kaufman, J. C. (2013). The psychology of creative writing. In G. Harper (Ed.), Blackwell companion to creative writing. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pdf ↗
- Eskine, K.J., & Kaufman, S.B. (2013). Grounding creative giftedness in the body. In Kim, K.H., Kaufman, J.C., Baer, J., & Sriraman, B. (Eds.), Creatively gifted students are not like other gifted students: Research, theory, and practice. The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. pdf ↗
- Jonason, P.K., Kaufman, S.B., & Geher, G. (2013). What lies beneath the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen: Varied relations with the Big Five. Individual Differences Research, 11, 81–90. pdf ↗
2012
- Kaufman, S.B., Reynolds, M.R., Liu, X., Kaufman, A.S., & McGrew, K.S. (2012). Are cognitive g and academic achievement g one and the same g? An exploration on the Woodcock-Johnson and Kaufman tests. Intelligence, 40, 123–138. pdf ↗
- Sternberg, R.J., & Kaufman, S.B. (2012). Trends in intelligence research. Intelligence. pdf ↗
- Beaussart, M.L., Kaufman, S.B., & Kaufman, J.C. (2012). Creative activity, personality, mental illness, and short-term mating success. Journal of Creative Behavior, 46, 151–167. pdf ↗
2011
- Kaufman, S.B. (2011). Intelligence and the cognitive unconscious. In R.J. Sternberg & S.B. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence (pp. 442–467). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, J.C., Kaufman, S.B., & Lichtenberger, E.O. (2011). Finding creativity on intelligence tests via divergent production. Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 26, 83–106. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., DeYoung, C.G., Reis, D.L., & Gray, J.R. (2011). General intelligence predicts reasoning ability even for evolutionarily familiar content. Intelligence, 39, 311–322. pdf ↗
- Peterson, A., Geher, G., & Kaufman, S.B. (2011). Predicting preferences for sex acts: Which traits matter most, and why? Evolutionary Psychology, 9, 371–389. pdf ↗
- Geher, G., & Kaufman, S.B. (2011). Mating intelligence. In R.J. Sternberg & S.B. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pdf ↗
- Jelte, M.W., & Kaufman, S.B. (2011). An independent analysis of race differences in ratings of attractiveness in the Add Health Study. pdf ↗
2010
- Prozko, J., & Kaufman, S.B. (2010). Review of The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong by David Shenk. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., DeYoung, C.G., Gray, J.R., Jimenez, L., Brown, J.B., & Mackintosh, N. (2010). Implicit learning as an ability. Cognition, 116, 321–340. pdf ↗
- Brown, J.B., Aczel, B., Jimenez, L., Kaufman, S.B., Mackintosh, N., & Plaisted, K. (2010). Intact implicit learning in autism spectrum conditions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1, 1–24. pdf ↗
- Pretz, J.E., Totz, K.S., & Kaufman, S.B. (2010). The effects of mood, cognitive style, and cognitive ability on implicit learning. Learning and Individual Differences, 20, 215–219. pdf ↗
- Gabora, L., & Kaufman, S.B. (2010). Evolutionary approaches to creativity. To appear in R.J. Sternberg & J.C. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pdf ↗
- O’Brien, D.T., Geher, G., Gallup, A.C., Garcia, J.R., & Kaufman, S.B. (2010). Self-perceived mating intelligence predicts sexual behavior in college students: Empirical validation of a theoretical construct. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 29, 341–362. pdf ↗
2009
- Kaufman, S.B. (2009). Faith in intuition is associated with decreased latent inhibition in a sample of high achieving adolescents. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 3, 28–34. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, J.C., Kaufman, S.B., Beghetto, R.A., Burgess, S.A., & Persson, R.S. (2009). Creative giftedness: beginnings, developments, and future promises. In L. Shavinina (Ed.), International handbook on giftedness. Springer Science. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., DeYoung, C.G., Gray, J.R., Brown, J., & Mackintosh, N. (2009). Associative learning predicts intelligence above and beyond working memory and processing speed. Intelligence, 37, 374–382. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., & Kaufman, J.C. (2009). Putting the parts together: integrative look at the psychology of creative writing. In S.B. Kaufman & J.C. Kaufman (Eds.), The Psychology of Creative Writing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., & Kozbelt, A. (2009). The tears of a clown: Understanding comedy writers. In S.B. Kaufman & J.C. Kaufman (Eds.), The Psychology of Creative Writing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pdf ↗
2008
- Kaufman, S.B. (2008). Commentary: Intuition and creative cognition. Periodicals of implicit cognition, 1, 5–6. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., & Sternberg, R.J. (2008). Conceptions of giftedness. In S. Pfeiffer (Ed.), Handbook of giftedness in children: Psycho-educational theory, research, and best practices. New York, NY: Plenum. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., Christopher, E.M., & Kaufman, J.C. (2008). The genius portfolio: How do poets earn their creative reputations from multiple products? Empirical Studies of the Arts, 26, 181–196. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., Kozbelt, A., Bromley, M.L., & Miller, G.F. (2008). The role of creativity and humor in human mate selection. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind’s reproductive system. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pdf ↗
- Kozbelt, A., & Kaufman, S.B. (2008). Review of The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative Approach by Rod A. Martin. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. pdf ↗
2007
- Kaufman, S.B. (2007). Review of Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 1, 47–48. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B. (2007). Commentary on the deliberate practice view: Investigating the role of domain general mechanisms in the acquisition of domain specific expertise. High Ability Studies, 18, 71–73. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., & Sternberg, R.J. (2007). Giftedness in the Euro-American culture. In S.N. Phillipson & M. McCann (Eds.), Conceptions of giftedness: Socio-cultural perspectives (pp. 377–413). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B. (2007). Sex differences in mental rotation and spatial visualization ability: can they be accounted for by differences in working memory capacity? Intelligence, 35, 211–223. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B., & Kaufman, J.C. (2007). Ten years to expertise, ten more to greatness: An investigation of modern writers. Journal of Creative Behavior, 41, 114–124. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B. (2007). Genius. In C.R. Reynolds & E. Fletcher-Janzen (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Special Education (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Wiley. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B. (2007). Creativity. In C.R. Reynolds & E. Fletcher-Janzen (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Special Education (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Wiley. pdf ↗
2006
- Kaufman, S.B. (2006–2007). Review of Creativity from Constraints: The Psychology of Breakthrough by Patricia D. Stokes. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 26, 273–278. pdf ↗
- Kaufman, S.B. (2006). Review of Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development, edited by James C. Kaufman and John Baer. pdf ↗
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