Faculty Profile

James C. Kaufman

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Research and Teaching Interests:

Creativity - including its definition and measurement; individual differences; whether it is general or domain-specific; its relationship with mental illness, intelligence, and other constructs; and its place in fair and equitable assessment.

Student success - the relationship of personality, thinking styles, motivation, creativity, and other cognitive and non-cognitive constructs to student success, achievement, and retention

Non-cognitive constructs - in general, the constructs of personality, motivation, thinking styles, metacognition, emotional intelligence, etc

Courses Taught:

Critical Thinking
Intelligence and Creativity
Psychology and the Movies
Tests and Measurement

Honors and Awards:

2009 Western Psychological Association Early Career Research Award

2008 E. Paul Torrance Award from the National Association for Gifted Children's Creativity Division

2005 CSUSB's College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Professional Growth Award

2004 CSUSB's Department of Psychology Outstanding Faculty Professional Development Award

2003 Daniel E. Berlyne Award (APA's Division 10 ) for outstanding research by a junior scholar

Representative Publications:

More than 170, including 20 books out or in press.

Books (Select):

Kaufman, J. C., & Simonton, D. K. (in press).The social science of the cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Beghetto, R. A., & Kaufman, J. C.  (Eds.) (2010).  Nurturing creativity in the classroom. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Cropley, D. H., Cropley, A. J., Kaufman, J. C., & Runco, M. A. (2010). The dark side of creativity.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kaufman, J. C., & Sternberg, R. J. (Eds). (2010). Cambridge handbook of creativity. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kaufman, S. B., & Kaufman, J. C.  (Eds).  (2009).  Psychology of creative writing New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kaufman, J. C.  (2009).  Creativity 101.  New York: Springer.

Kaufman, J. C., Plucker, J. A., & Baer, J.  (2008).  Essentials of creativity assessment.  New York: Wiley.

Sternberg, R. J., Kaufman, J. C., & Grigorenko, E. L. (2008). Applied Intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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.

Gallagher, A. M., & Kaufman, J. C. (Eds). (2005). Gender differences in mathematics.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kaufman, J. C., & Baer, J. (Eds). (2005). Creativity across domains: Faces of the muse. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Articles (select):

Kaufman, J. C. (in press). Self estimates of general, crystallized, and fluid intelligences in an ethnically diverse population. Learning and Individual Differences.

Kaufman, A. B., Butt, A. B., Colbert-White, E. N., & Kaufman, J. C. (2011). Towards a neurobiological model of creativity in nonhuman animals. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 125, 255-272.

Kaufman, J. C., Kaufman, S. B., & Lichtenberger, E. O. (2011). Finding creativity on intelligence tests via divergent production. Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 26, 83-106.

Silvia, P. J., Kaufman, J. C., Reiter-Palmon, R., & Wigert, B. (2011). Cantankerous creativity: Honesty-Humility, Agreeableness, and the HEXACO structure of creative achievement. Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 687-689.

Kaufman, J. C. (2010). Using creativity to reduce ethnic bias in college admissions. Review of General Psychology, 14, 189-203.

Kaufman, J. C., Baer, J., Agars, M. D., & Loomis, D. (2010). Creativity stereotypes and the Consensual Assessment Technique. Creativity Research Journal, 22, 200-205.

Kaufman, J. C., Beghetto, R. A., Baer, J., & Ivcevic, Z. (2010). Creativity polymathy: What Benjamin Franklin can teach your kindergartener. Learning & Individual Differences.

Kaufman, J. C., Evans, M. L., & Baer, J. (2010) The American Idol Effect: Are students good judges of their creativity across domains?  Empirical Studies of the Arts, 28, 3-17.

Kaufman, J. C., Niu, W., Sexton, J. D., & Cole, J. C. (2010). In the eye of the beholder: Differences across ethnicity and gender in evaluating creative work.       Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Beghetto, R. A., & Kaufman, J. C. (2009). Intellectual estuaries: Connecting learning and creativity in programs of advanced academics. Journal of Advanced Academics, 20, 296-324.

Kaufman, J. C., & Agars, M D. (2009). Being creative with the predictors and criteria for success. American Psychologist, 64, 280-281.

Kaufman, J. C., & Baer, J. (2009). Is one dimension enough?  A response to Simonton's varieties of (scientific) creativity.  Perspectives on Psychological      Science, 4, 453-454.

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., Cole, J. C., & Baer, J.  (2009). The construct of creativity: A structural model for self-reported creativity ratings. Journal of Creative Behavior, 43, 119-134.

Plucker, J. A., Kaufman, J. C., Temple, J. S., & Qian, M. (2009). Do experts and novices evaluate movies the same way? Psychology and Marketing, 26, 470-478.

Silvia, P. J., Kaufman, J. C., & Pretz, J. E. (2009). Is creativity domain-specific? Latent class models of creative accomplishments and creative self-descriptions. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 3, 139-148.

Baer, J., & Kaufman, J. C. (2008). Gender differences in creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 42, 75-106.

Cropley, D. H., Kaufman, J. C., & Cropley, A. J. (2008). Malevolent creativity: A functional model of creativity in terrorism and crime. Creativity Research Journal, 20, 105-115.

Kaufman, J. C., Baer, J., Cole, J. C., & Sexton, J. D. (2008). A comparison of expert and nonexpert raters using the Consensual Assessment Technique. Creativity Research Journal, 20, 171-178.

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.

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, 1 (2), 13-79.

Kaufman, J. C., & Sternberg, R. J. (2007). Resource review: Creativity. Change, 39 (4), 55-58.

Kaufman, S. B., & Kaufman, J. C. (2007). Ten years to expertise, many more to greatness: An investigation of modern writers. Journal of Creative Behavior, 41 (2), 114-124.

Kaufman, J. C. (2006). Self-reported differences in creativity by gender and ethnicity. Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20 (8), 1065-1082.

Kaufman, J. C., & Sexton, J. D. (2006). Why doesn't the writing cure help poets? : Review of General Psychology, 10 (3), 268-282.

Baer, J., & Kaufman, J. C. (2005). Bridging generality and specificity: The Amusement Park Theoretical (APT) Model of creativity. Roeper Review, 27 (3), 158-163.

Kaufman, J. C., Gentile, C. A., & Baer, J. (2005). Do gifted student writers and creative writing experts rate creativity the same way? Gifted Child Quarterly, 49 (3), 260-265.

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.

Sternberg, R. J., Kaufman, J. C., & Pretz, J. E. (2003). A propulsion model of creative leadership. Leadership Quarterly, 14 (4-5), 455-473.

Kaufman, J. C. (2002). Creativity and confidence: Price of achievement? American Psychologist, 57, 375-376.

Kaufman, J. C. (2002). Dissecting the golden goose: Components of studying creative writers. Creativity Research Journal, 14 (1), 27-40.

Kaufman, J. C. (2002). Narrative and Paradigmatic thinking styles in creative writing and journalism students. Journal of Creative Behavior, 36 (3), 201-220.

Research Highlights:

• Over $420,000 in external funding and grants
• Founding co-editor, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (APA journal)
• Editor, International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving
• Associate editor, Psychological Assessment and Journal of Creative Behavior

Student Research Projects

• Creativity, stereotype threat, gender differences, and mathematics (Erica R. Mitchell, Master's thesis)
• Self-assessment of creativity (Ryan Holt and my Lab) Judgement, decision-making, and creativity (Sarah Burgess, Master's thesis)
• Tattoo artists, personality, and creativity (Kristina Rosenau, Honors thesis)
• Criminal thinking and creativity (Danny Gascon)
• Movie ratings -- expert and novice (Jason Temple)
• Self-reported GPA, creativity, and motivation (Ryan Holt, Honors thesis)
• What constructs are important for college success (Samaneh Pourjalali)
• Praise, motivation, and creativity (Courtney DeRosia, Honors thesis)
• College stress and creativity (Candice Davis)

Other:

• President-Elect, Division 10, American Psychological Association
• On-camera narrator for a documentary about comic book artists, Independents , directed by Chris Brandt.
• Playwright/lyricist of many one-act plays and a musical, Discovering Magenta (the libretto).
• Psychology Today Blogger, “And All that Jazz,”

Related Links:

• New York Times article on some of my work
• Extra Credit Survey (creativity across domains) -- 2 points
• Extra Credit Survey (thinking styles)-- 3 points