Research - Scott Barry Kaufman

Selected scientific publications

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, SB. (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 list of scientific publications

2024

Chrysikou, E.G., Wintering, N.A., Hriso, C., Shahrampour, S., Yaden, D.B., Kaufman, S.B., et al. (2023). Resting-state functional connectivity reveals differences in large-scale network interactions between eminent and non-eminent thinkers. Creativity Research Journal. [pdf]

2023

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., 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]

2019

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]

2018

Kaufman, SB. (2018). Self-Actualizing people in the 21st century: Integration with contemporary theory and research on personality and well-being. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. [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]

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

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., & 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

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 & Fletcher-Janzen, E. (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 (2006). Review of Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development, edited by James C. Kaufman and John Baer. [pdf]

2004

Kaufman, S.B., & Singer, J.L. (2004). Applying the theory of successful intelligence to psychotherapy training and practice. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 23, 325-355. [pdf]

2001

Kaufman, S.B., Ross, H.J., and Silk, E.M. (2001). A cognitive model of analytical reasoning using GRE problems. Final Project: Cognitive Modeling and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Carnegie Mellon University. [pdf]