James C. Kaufman

James C. Kaufman (born September 21, 1974 ) is an American psychologist. He is a professor at California State University, San Bernardino , where he heads the Learning Research Institute . He received his PhD in cognitive psychology from Yale , where he worked with Robert Sternberg .

Kaufman's main area of ​​interest is creativity research . He is also interested in research into intelligence . His best-known works include Intelligence Applied (with Sternberg and Elena Grigorenko; Cambridge, 2008) and Essentials of Creativity Assessment (with Jonathan A. Plucker and John Baer; Wiley, 2008).

Kaufman is the son of psychology professor Alan S. Kaufman and psychology professor Nadeen L. Kaufman .

Works

• Cropley, DH, Cropley, AJ, Kaufman, JC, & Runco, MA (in press). The dark side of creativity. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Kaufman, SB, & Kaufman, JC (Eds). (2009). Psychology of creative writing. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Kaufman, JC (2009). Creativity 101. New York: Springer.
• Kaufman, JC, Plucker, JA, & Baer, ​​J. (2008). Essentials of creativity assessment. New York: Wiley.
• Sternberg, RJ, Kaufman, JC, & Grigorenko, EL (2008). Applied Intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kaufman, JC, & Baer, ​​J. (Eds). (2006). Creativity and reason in cognitive development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kaufman, JC, & Sternberg, RJ (Eds). (2006). The international handbook of creativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Gallagher, AM, & Kaufman, JC (Eds). (2005). Gender differences in mathematics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kaufman, JC, & Baer, ​​J. (Eds). (2005). Creativity across domains: Faces of the muse. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Web links

• Factuly Profile
• Psychology Today Blog