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David Lubinski is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and focuses primarily on the field of psychology. Their research explores various subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, safety research, applied psychology, social psychology, and education.

Their scholarly work addresses multiple topics such as cognitive abilities and testing, education, achievement and giftedness, psychological and temporal perspectives research, psychological and educational research studies, career development and diversity, as well as creativity in education and neuroscience, alongside optimism, hope, and well-being.

Lubinski has contributed to a range of academic journals, with frequent publications appearing in Gifted Child Quarterly. Other venues include the Journal of Educational Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Intelligence.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Lubinski include:

  • Intellectual Precocity: What Have We Learned Since Terman? (2020, Gifted Child Quarterly)
  • Composing Meaningful Lives: Exceptional Women and Men at Age 50 (2023, Gifted Child Quarterly)
  • Understanding educational, occupational, and creative outcomes requires assessing intraindividual differences in abilities and interests (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Additional coauthored works involving Lubinski include studies focusing on academic acceleration in gifted youth and examining psychological well-being over a longitudinal period, as well as analyses regarding success and its psychological implications.

Frequent collaborators in Lubinski's research include Camilla Persson Benbow, Brian O. Bernstein, Kira O. McCabe, Harrison J. Kell, and Gabriella D. Noreen.

Lubinski's publications demonstrate a sustained commitment to advancing understanding in education, cognitive abilities, and psychological development, with an emphasis on giftedness and individual differences over time.

Best Publications

  • Spatial ability for STEM domains: Aligning over 50 years of cumulative psychological knowledge solidifies its importance.

    Jonathan Wai;David Lubinski;Camilla P. Benbow

  • Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth After 35 Years: Uncovering Antecedents for the Development of Math-Science Expertise:

    David Lubinski;Camilla Persson Benbow

  • Importance of Assessing Spatial Ability in Intellectually Talented Young Adolescents: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study.

    Daniel L. Shea;David Lubinski;Camilla P. Benbow

  • The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood

    Claire M. A. Haworth;M. J. Wright;M. Luciano;N. G. Martin

  • Introduction to the special section on cognitive abilities: 100 years after Spearman's (1904) "'General intelligence,' objectively determined and measured".

    David Lubinski

  • Accomplishment in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and Its Relation to STEM Educational Dose: A 25-Year Longitudinal Study

    Jonathan Wai;David Lubinski;Camilla P. Benbow;James H. Steiger

  • Scientific and Social Significance of Assessing Individual Differences: “Sinking Shafts at a Few Critical Points”

    David Lubinski

  • Top 1 in 10,000: A 10-Year Follow-Up of the Profoundly Gifted

    David Lubinski;Rose Mary Webb;Martha J. Morelock;Camilla Persson Benbow

  • Assessing spurious "moderator effects": Illustrated substantively with the hypothesized ("synergistic") relation between spatial and mathematical ability.

    David Lubinski;Lloyd G. Humphreys

  • States of excellence.

    David Lubinski;Camilla Persson Benbow

  • Utility of predicting group membership and the role of spatial visualization in becoming an engineer, physical scientist, or artist.

    Lloyd G. Humphreys;David Lubinski;Grace Yao

  • Sex Differences in Mathematical Reasoning Ability at Age 13: Their Status 20 Years Later

    Camilla Persson Benbow;David Lubinski;Daniel L. Shea;Hossain Eftekhari-Sanjani

  • Spatial ability and STEM: A sleeping giant for talent identification and development

    David Lubinski

  • Creativity and Technical Innovation: Spatial Ability’s Unique Role

    Harrison J. Kell;David Lubinski;Camilla P. Benbow;James H. Steiger

  • Contrasting Intellectual Patterns Predict Creativity in the Arts and Sciences Tracking Intellectually Precocious Youth Over 25 Years

    Gregory Park;David Lubinski;Camilla P. Benbow

  • Masculinity, femininity, and androgyny viewed and assessed as distinct concepts.

    David Lubinski;Auke Tellegen;James N. Butcher

  • Gender Differences in Abilities and Preferences Among the Gifted: Implications for the Math-Science Pipeline

    David Lubinski;Camilla Persson Benbow

  • Tracking Exceptional Human Capital Over Two Decades

    David Lubinski;Camilla P. Benbow;Rose Mary Webb;April Bleske-Rechek

  • Creativity and Occupational Accomplishments Among Intellectually Precocious Youths: An Age 13 to Age 33 Longitudinal Study.

    Jonathan Wai;David Lubinski;Camilla P. Benbow

  • Work preferences, life values, and personal views of top math/science graduate students and the profoundly gifted: Developmental changes and gender differences during emerging adulthood and parenthood.

    Kimberley Ferriman;David Lubinski;Camilla P. Benbow

Frequent Co-Authors

Camilla Persson Benbow
Camilla Persson Benbow Vanderbilt University
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
Lee A. Thompson
Lee A. Thompson Case Western Reserve University
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University
Thalia C. Eley
Thalia C. Eley King's College London
Lloyd G. Humphreys
Lloyd G. Humphreys University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Douglas K. Detterman
Douglas K. Detterman Case Western Reserve University
Travis Thompson
Travis Thompson University of Minnesota
Ian W. Craig
Ian W. Craig King's College London
Stephen A. Petrill
Stephen A. Petrill The Ohio State University

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