Genius: The Natural History of Creativity presents a novel theory of genius and creativity that is based on the personality characteristics of creative persons and geniuses. Starting with the fact that genius and creativity are frequently related to psychopathology, this book brings together many different lines of research into the subject. Professor Eysenck provides experimental evidence to support these theories in their application to creativity. He considers the role of intelligence, social status, gender, and many other factors that have been linked with genius and creativity. His theory traces creativity from DNA through personality to special cognitive processes to genius. The book will generate a great deal of interest in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, and sociology.
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"...[Eysenck] expertly weaves together a vast array of research, and proposes a theory which, although as yet not fully tested, suggests a creative and viable synthesis of the research on creativity to date." Shari Tishman, Applied Cognitive Psychology
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This text presents a novel theory of creativity that is based on the linkage between the psychopathological characteristics of creative persons and geniuses. It traces creativity from DNA through personality to special cognitive processes and the qualities of genius.
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This review is from: Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences) (Paperback)
As no one has reviewed this book, I will do so even though I didn't buy it from Amazon. The book is not the most exciting read ever. It reads very much like a psychology research book. The message behing it all is what's important. Eysenck gives the Minesota Multi-phasic Personality Inventory to creative geniuses and his findings are the following:1) Geniuses average on the top 15% of the population in all psychopathological scales. 2) Geniuses are always on the top of the Ego Strenght scale. His argument is that it may be the fact that they believe that they are geniuses that make them so. It's a good book. I gave it to my brother once as a Christmas present. I'm sure Eysenck would appreciate the extra income.
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There are many books on the topic of genius; since the days of Aristotle and Plato, philosophers, artists, teachers, scientists, psychiatrists and lately psychologists have combined to tell us what genius is, how it is produced, how it relates to madness, how it can be cultivated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
psychoticism continuum, associative gradient, schizotypy scales, associative horizon, divergent tests, latent inhibition, cognitive inhibition, primordial content, creative achievers, evaluative conditioning, proportionality criterion, magical ideation, arousal potential, psychoticism scale, creativity scores, stimulus image, creative behaviour, creativity tests, cue users, perceptual aberration, complex polygons, associationist theory, functional psychoses, ideational fluency, criterion analysis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nobel Laureates, Maunder Minimum, Victor Herbert, American Men of Science, First Clinic, George Carver, California Psychological Inventory, Cesar Franck, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Handbook of Creativity, John Stuart Mill, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Sir Francis Galton New!
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There are many books on the topic of genius; since the days of Aristotle and Plato, philosophers, artists, teachers, scientists, psychiatrists and lately psychologists have combined to tell us what genius is, how it is produced, how it relates to madness, how it can be cultivated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
psychoticism continuum, associative gradient, schizotypy scales, associative horizon, divergent tests, latent inhibition, cognitive inhibition, primordial content, creative achievers, evaluative conditioning, proportionality criterion, magical ideation, arousal potential, psychoticism scale, creativity scores, stimulus image, creative behaviour, creativity tests, cue users, perceptual aberration, complex polygons, associationist theory, functional psychoses, ideational fluency, criterion analysis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nobel Laureates, Maunder Minimum, Victor Herbert, American Men of Science, First Clinic, George Carver, California Psychological Inventory, Cesar Franck, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Handbook of Creativity, John Stuart Mill, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Sir Francis Galton New!
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- Handbook of Creativity (Perspectives on Individual Differences) by John A. Glover on 9 pages
- Genius: History of an Idea by Penelope Murray on 5 pages
- Social Psychology (12th Edition) by Shelley E. Taylor in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Handbook of Abnormal Psychology by H. J. Eysenck in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Hereditary Genius (Classics in Psychology) by Francis Galton on page 14, page 19, and Back Matter
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- Types of Thinking (Psychology Focus) by S. Ian Robertson on page 58, and Back Matter
- The Nature-Nurture Debate: The Essential Readings (Essential Readings in Developmental Psychology) by Stephen J. Ceci on page 282
- Gender and Choice in Education and Occupation by John Radford on page 188
- Every Family in the Land: Understanding Prejudice And Discrimination Against People With Mental Illness by Professor Arthur Crisp on page 316
- Count Down: The Race for Beautiful Solutions at the International Mathematical Olympiad by Steve Olson in Back Matter
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