Visiting Scholar of Psychology

Research

I’m interested in the mysteries of human intelligence and creativity. How do a person’s expertise, intelligence, talent, personality, and life circumstances interact to produce genius? Recently, I proposed the Dual-Process (DP) theory of human intelligence (Kaufman, 2009a), in which I try to integrate research on psychometric intelligence with experimental work on the cognitive unconscious. My research program aims to investigate the mechanisms that support general intelligence (g) such as working memory, processing speed, and intentional associative learning. I also aim to go beyond g by measuring individual differences in various forms of implicit cognition such as implicit learning and latent inhibition. A considerable amount of information processing takes place automatically—without our intent, awareness, or deliberate encoding—and plays a significant role in structuring our skills, perceptions, and behavior. I am interested in investigating links between variations in implicit cognition and a wide variety of intelligent behaviors including creative achievement in the arts and sciences. Other research interests include intelligence testing, conceptions of giftedness, late bloomers, individual differences in humor production, imagination, the evolution of creativity, and the philosophy of creativity.

To learn more, go to http://www.scottbarrykaufman.com.

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, 2009
M. Phil, University of Cambridge, 2005
B.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 2003

Selected Publications

Books

Kaufman, S.B., & Kaufman, J.C. (Eds.) (2009). The Psychology of Creative Writing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Sternberg, R.J., & Kaufman, S.B. (Eds.) (in preparation). The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Articles

Intelligence

Kaufman, S.B. (2009a). Beyond general intelligence: The dual-process theory of human intelligence. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Yale University.

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.

Kaufman, S.B. (in preparation). Intelligence and the cognitive unconscious. To appear in R.J. Sternberg & S.B. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Kaufman, S.B., DeYoung, C.G., Gray, J.R., & Jimen é z, L., Brown, J.B., & Mackintosh, N. (under revision). Implicit learning as an ability.

Pretz, J.E., Totz, K.S., & Kaufman, S.B. (under revision). The effects of mood, cognitive style, and cognitive ability on implicit learning .

Gabora, L., & Kaufman, S.B. (in press). Evolutionary approaches to creativity. To appear in R.J. Sternberg & J.C. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Creativity

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kaufman, S.B. (2007). Genius. In C.R. Reynolds & Fletcher-Janzen, E. (Eds). Encyclopedia of Special Education (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Wiley.

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.

Address

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

Visiting Scholar

Department of Psychology
New York University
6 Washington Place, Room 158
New York, New York 10003
scott.barry.kaufman@nyu.edu

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