James C. Kaufman
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James C. Kaufman is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author or editor of more than 50 books, including Creativity 101 (2nd Edition, 2016) and the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (2nd Edition, 2019; with Robert Sternberg).
Professor Kaufman has published more than 300 papers, including the study that spawned the "Sylvia Plath Effect," and three well-known theories of creativity, including (with Ron Beghetto) the Four-C Model of Creativity.
Dr. Kaufman is a past president of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association and has won many awards, including Mensa's research award, the Torrance Award from the National Association for Gifted Children, and APA's Berlyne and Farnsworth awards. He co-founded two major journals (Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, and Psychology of Popular Media Culture). He has tested Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s creativity on CNN, appeared in the hit Australia show Redesign Your Brain, and narrated the comic book documentary Independents. He wrote the book and lyrics to Discovering Magenta, which had its NYC premiere in 2015.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Gender Psychology
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Personality, Individual Differences
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Books:
- Baer, J., Kaufman, J. C., & Baumeister, R. F. (Eds.). (2008). Are we free? Psychology and free will. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Kaufman, J. C. (2016). Creativity 101 (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Publishing Co.
- Kaufman, J. C., & Baer, J. (Eds.). (2006). Creativity and reason in cognitive development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Kaufman, J. C., & Sternberg, R. J. (Eds.). (2006). The international handbook of creativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Kaufman, S. B., & Kaufman, J. C. (Eds.). (2009). The psychology of creative writing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Sternberg, R. J., & Kaufman, J. C. (Eds.). (2018). The nature of human creativity. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Baer, J., & Kaufman, J. C. (2008). Gender differences in creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 42, 75-106.
- Baer, J., & Kaufman, J. C. (2005). Bridging generality and specificity: The Amusement Park Theoretical (APT) model of creativity. Roeper Review, 27(3), 158-163.
- Beghetto, R. A., & Kaufman, J. C. (2007). Toward a broader conception of creativity: A case for "mini-c" creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
- Kaufman, J. C. (2006). Self-reported differences in creativity by ethnicity and gender. Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology.
- Kaufman, J. C. (2002). Narrative and Paradigmatic thinking styles in creative writing and journalism students. Journal of Creative Behavior, 36(3), 201-220.
- Kaufman, J. C. (2001). The Sylvia Plath effect: Mental illness in eminent creative writers. Journal of Creative Behavior, 35(1), 37-50.
- Kaufman, J. C., & Baer, J. (2006). Intelligence testing with Torrance. Creativity Research Journal, 18, 99-102.
- Kaufman, J. C., & Baer, J. (2002). I bask in dreams of suicide: Mental illness and poetry. Review of General Psychology, 6(3), 271-286.
- Kaufman, J. C., Baer, J., & Gentile, C. A. (2004). Differences in gender and ethnicity as measured by ratings of three writing tasks. Journal of Creative Behavior, 38(1), 56-69.
- Kaufman, J. C., & Beghetto, R. A. (2009). Beyond big and little: The Four C Model of Creativity. Review of General Psychology, 13, 1-12.
- Kaufman, J. C., & Sexton, J. D. (2006). Why doesn’t the writing cure help poets? Review of General Psychology, 10(3), 268-282.
- Kaufman, S. B., & Kaufman, J. C. (2007). Ten years to expertise, many more to greatness: An investigation of modern writers. Journal of Creative Behavior.
- Sternberg, R. J., & Kaufman, J. C. (1998). Human abilities. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 479-502.
Courses Taught:
- Creativity and the Movies
- Critical Thinking
- Individual Differences in Creativity
- Intelligence and Creativity
- Introduction to Creativity
- Language and Meaning
- Professional Issues
- Psychology and the Movies
- Psychology of Musical Theatre
- Tests and Measurement
- Time Travel and the Movies
James C. Kaufman
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Connecticut, Tasker 41
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-1020
United States of America
- Phone: (860) 486-4685