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Kaufman, James Corey was born on September 21, 1974 in Great Neck, New York, United States. Son of Alan Stephen and Nadeen Laurie Kaufman.
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psychologist university professor
Kaufman, James Corey was born on September 21, 1974 in Great Neck, New York, United States. Son of Alan Stephen and Nadeen Laurie Kaufman.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in Cognitive Psychology, where he worked with Robert J. Sternberg. Born in Great Neck, New York, he attended the University of Southern California as an undergraduate, where he worked with both John L. Horn and famed novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle.
He is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. Previously, he taught at the California State University, San Bernardino, where he directed the Learning Research Institute. He is a prolific researcher and editor who is best known for his theoretical contributions to the study of creativity.
With Sternberg and Jean Pretz, he developed the propulsion model of creative contributions, outlined in The Creativity Conundrum (Psychology Press, 2002), and with John Baer developed the Amusement Park Theoretical (Advanced Package Tool) Model of Creativity.
His latest theoretical work, with Ron Beghetto, is the Four-C Model of Creativity. This model explores the idea of expanding traditional conceptions of eminent creativity ("Big-C") and everyday creativity ("little-c") to include "mini-c"—creativity that is inherent in the learning process—and "Pro-c"—creativity at a professional level that has not yet had a historical impact.
Kaufman"s empirical work has focused on a few different key areas. Most media attention has focused on his research on creativity and mental illness.
He coined “the Sylvia Plath Effect,” after finding that female poets were more likely to be mentally ill than other writers, in a paper in the Journal of Creative Behavior, and his work on poets dying young has been featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, British Broadcasting Corporation, Cable News Network, and newspapers and magazines across the world.
He has recently focused on issues of creativity and fairness, arguing that creativity should be a supplemental part of college admissions
Kaufman has written and edited 31 books, including Creativity 101 (Springer, 2009), the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (with Sternberg. Cambridge, 2010), Essentials of Creativity Assessment (with Jonathan A Plucker and John Baer. Wiley, 2008), The International Handbook of Creativity (with Sternberg.
Cambridge, 2006), and The Psychology of Creative Writing (with Scott Barry Kaufman, Cambridge, 2009).
He is the Series Editor of the Psychology 101 series from Springer. Kaufman edits Psychology of Popular Media Culture, published by the American Psychological Association.
He was the founding co-editor of the official journal of the American Psychological Association"s Division 10, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, from 2006-2012. He is a past president of the American Psychological Association"s Division 10.
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Member of American Psychological Association (Daniel E. Berlyne award 2002).