Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research

I’m a cognitive scientist and personality psychologist interested in the nature, measurement, and development of intelligence, creativity, imagination and personality. I like to apply a variety of perspectives to come to a richer understanding and appreciation of all kinds of minds and way of achieving greatness. Recently, I proposed the Dual-Process (DP) theory of human intelligence (Kaufman, in press; 2009), in which I try to integrate research on psychometric intelligence with experimental work on the cognitive unconscious. 

Other research interests include intelligence testing, conceptions of giftedness, cognition in prodigious savants and people with schizotypy and autism spectrum disorder, late bloomers, individual differences in humor production, mating intelligence, the evolution of creativity, and the philosophy of creativity. From 2009-2010, I was was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies, Free University of Brussels.

I write a blog for Psychology Today called "Beautiful Minds" and I am a contributing writer for The Huffington Post. I am also also Associate Editor of The International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving and the Sex, Art, and Pop Culture editor of The Evolutionary Review. I am the recipient of the 2008 Frank X. Barron award from Division 10 of the American Psychological Association for my research on the psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts.

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

Courses Taught: Cognitive Psychology (Fall 2010; Summer 2011), Human Intelligence (Spring 2011)

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

Books

Kaufman, S.B. (Ed.) (in preparation). Beyond “Talent or Practice?”:
            The Complexity of Greatness. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Paul, E., & Kaufman, S.B. (Eds.). (in preparation) The Philosophy of Creativity. New York,
            NY: Oxford University Press. [conference website]

Sternberg, R.J., & Kaufman, S.B. (Eds.) (2011). The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence.
            New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

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

Articles

Intelligence

Kaufman, S.B. (2011). Intelligence and the cognitive unconscious. In R.J. Sternberg &
            S.B. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge Hand book of Intelligence. New York, NY:
            Cambridge University Press.

Geher, G., & Kaufman, S.B. (2011). Mating intelligence. To appear in R.J.
            Sternberg & S.B. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence. New York, NY: 
            Cambridge University Press.

Kaufman, S.B., DeYoung, C.G., Gray, J.R., & Jimenéz, L., Brown, J.B., & Mackintosh, N. 
            (2010). Implicit learning as an ability, Cognition, 116, 321-340. 

Brown, J.B., Aczel, B., Jimenéz, L., Kaufman, S.B., Mackintosh, N., & Plaisted, K.
            (2010). Intact implicit learning in autism spectrum conditions. Quarterly Journal of
            Experimental Psychology, 1, 1-24.

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.

Geher, G., O’Brien, D.T., Gallup, A.C., Kaufman, S.B., & Garcia, J.R. (2010).
            Self-perceived mating intelligence predicts sexual behavior in college students:
            Empirical validation of a theoretical construct. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality,
            29, 341-362.

Kaufman, S.B. (2009). 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. (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.

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.

Creativity

Gabora, L., & Kaufman, S.B. (2011). Evolutionary approaches to creativity.
            In R.J. Sternberg & J.C. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity.
            New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

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., & 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.

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., 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., & Kaufman, J.C. (2007). Ten years to expertise, ten more to greatness: 
            An investigation of modern writers, Journal of Creative Behavior, 41, 114-124.

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.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology
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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